Article: Alternative gasoline.(INDUSTRY NEWS)

While ethanol and biodiesel fuels have grabbed the headlines lately, Gov. Brian Schweitzer, D-Mont., says he has a better solution. Montana holds an estimated 120 billions tons of coal--a little less than one-third of the U.S. total. German researchers developed a method of converting coal to petroleum products in 1923 called the Fischer-Tropsch technology.

According to the governor, it would cost only about $32 to produce a barrel of gasoline. With the state's ...

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