--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Don Libby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The "guarantee" you're looking for is approximated by laws and
regulations
that control air
pollution emissions. There is currently a debate raging over whether there
is an adequate
legal basis for the regulation of CO2 emissions - the UN FCCC
internationally and the
Clean Air Act in the US.
Those of us who wish to secure regulation of CO2 emission should
work hard to get appropriate legislation passed. When CO2 emission
reduction becomes
the law of the land, the to-liquid industry coal-will have to comply. And
we're supposedly to rely on this hope of "working hard to get
appropriatelegislation passed" so as to force the coal-to-liquid fuel industry
to control its CO2 emissions, after the industry has come into existence? Maybe
I'm too cynical about the regulatory process in the United Statesand around the
world. But in China, even conventional air pollutants arent' currently being
controlled through regulationvery effectively, are they? And in the United
States, we stillhaven't begun to regulate CO2 emissions from conventional
coal-burningelectricity generating plants. How long does the
conventionalwisdom say it will be before effectively regulation of thenew
"synthetic fuel" or coal to liquid fuel industry might becomelaw?
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