Air forces use the most gasoline than any other vehicle; it even uses more than the U.S. military! The military used about 2.5 billion gallons of gasoline in 2007. A plan that might save our future comes from the U.S. Air Force itself to use coal instead of gas. I would say using coal is a much more smarter idea. Coal can help us drastically because there would be less pollution and the nauseating smell of gasoline from air planes. In the future, cars would be running on batteries, power plants on wind and solar energy, and city buses on zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells and hopefully, air planes on coal. The air force is saying that they would use 50/50 blend of synthetic and regular fuel by 2016 which is in seven years(thats not too far away). According to William Anderson who is the former assisstant of the U.S. Air Force says its going to make a domestic fuel industry to dig new coal mines. Also, it will build the country's first biggest liquified coal plants(CTL). The Air Force didnt invent the CTL yet but German scientists figured out how to make coal into liquid fuel in 1920s. Even Adolf Hitler used the technique of turning materials into liquid which is called the Fischer-Tropsch process to take control over Germany in World War II. CTL can save us and we can make a brighter future!
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