We have reported on, and made frequent reference to, "bi-reforming" and "tri-reforming" technologies, wherein Carbon Dioxide is reacted with Methane to synthesize higher, liquid hydrocarbons, such as Methanol.
We have also thoroughly documented, and will further report, that the needed Methane can itself be synthesized, either from Carbon Dioxide, via the century-old Sabatier process now being more fully developed by NASA, and by various corporate contractors in service to the USDOD; or, from Coal, using processes of Steam, or "hydro", gasification.
We have suggested, with the resultant taking of offense in some quarters, that the legislative "push" to capture the Carbon Dioxide arising from our smokestacks and then ship it to West Texas for "sequestration" in leaky old oil fields, all at the expense of our vital Coal-use industries and their customers, was a veiled attempt to, simply, swipe a valuable raw material resource from us Coal mining rubes resident in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the rest of US Coal Country.