US Air Force ditches coal-to-liquid fuel trial

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Has Obama's green vision reached the military industrial complex already?

US Air Force officials announced last week that they have rejected private proposals to build a coal-to-liquid fuel plant to designed to produce jet fuel at its Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana...

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