Can anyone tell us more about Brian Schweitzer and about this scheme?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/17/wmontana17.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/17/ixnews.htmlThe governor of Montana reached into the pocket of his black jeans, pulled out a vial of liquid and banged it on the table in front of him with a winning smile. "Diesel," he bellowed. "It smells nasty. It is nasty." Like one of the fairground hucksters who used to roam his giant western state, he paused, then lobbed a nugget of coal into the air, before pulling out another vial. "Now smell this. It doesn't smell at all. It is the future."
Inside the second vial was a synthetic fuel made from, of all things, coal. It looks like diesel. Indeed you can pour it into the fuel tank of a diesel car and drive away. Yet it just may be the magic potion that will help Americans to win independence from Middle Eastern oil and fill up their tanks with home-grown fuel.
Or so at least hopes Montana's ebullient Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer.
With petrol prices soaring, this is no longer just a cause for trendy Democrats. Conrad Burns, a Republican senator in Montana fighting for re-election, said: "We've got to get more independence from fossil fuel and keep working on new technologies."