Wouldn't it be ideal to have a U.S. Energy Independence Day? It's all sitting there for hundreds of years right in your own backyard in the form of lignite & subbutiminous low rank coal - 250 -300 yr. supply - just waiting to be used - 27 % of the world's coal supply - how sad! Why line the pockets of everyone else - why not your own & have money for other things?

P.S. No risk of oil spills here!