""More attention should be given to a variety of technologies such as those involving carbon sequestration and enhanced recovery methods for oil and gas", Manchin pointed out."
If you've followed our posts/correspondence, you know, or should know, that "carbon sequestration and enhanced recovery methods for oil and gas" are a waste of a potentially-valuable coal-use byproduct. They would be undertaken at great expense to the people who mine and use coal, in unthinking and obeisant support of the withering, but increasingly greedy and parasitic, grotesque vampire our oil industry, with all it's major players, has become.
Why don't you publicly reveal the truth of the matter, as you must by now, from our posts, know it; and, thus, give Governor Manchin a stake made of coal to ram through the vampire's heart, instead of a public forum from which he can, in misguided innocence, promote it's insidious, self-centered, delusional and damaging agenda?
During the last election cycle, you published a fanciful product entitled, as we recall, "Obama No Friend Of Coal".
Again: Given what you must, from our published research, by now know - - about the very real potential of established technologies that do exist to convert WV's abundant coal, and to recycle Carbon Dioxide, into the liquid transportation fuels our nation desperately needs - - and, given also your silence thus far on those issues, should you not now publish a cathartic mea culpa entitled "Myer No Friend Of Coal"?
Just wondering. But, you did get the title of our current subject right. It is way past time for us to "Focus on Practical US Energy Policy". It would be policy founded in coal conversion technology.
(PS. We are still researching the issue, but, aside from the fact that expensive and wasteful "sequestration" of CO2 is of unproven, even wildly speculative, effectiveness and permanence, the concept seems to be much younger and newer than the far more practical, Nobel-winning, Sabatier technology for actually recycling CO2 into valuable hydrocarbon fuels.)