Coal Industry Hopes Pentagon Will Kindle a Market.

The article reports on the call of the coal industry for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to jump-start a major new market for its coal-to-liquids technology known as the Fisher-Tropsch fuel. Skeptics commented that the DOD should not subsidize the high cost and potential environmental harm of the technology. Peabody Energy Corp. CEO Greg Boyce cited that using coal to make transportation fuel could increase annual coal demand. The Air Force supports the technology and certified the B-52 bomber to run on a blend of the said fuel and normal one.