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It's not entirely subjective. I think the underlying reasoning is that regardless of current prices, gas and oil are non-renewable resources that should not be

• maxerickson 14y ago
  The energy content of methane is a lot more interesting than the methane itself. It is easy enough to harvest from biological processes and if you really need it, it can easily be synthesized: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_process
• sageikosa 14y ago
  That may not be entirely true: using hydrolitic disproportionate of super-critical water and heated crushed coal slurry, dropped 10000 feet down in a closed continuous feed chamber, the coal slurry will break into shorter segments and reform as hydrocarbons using the hydrogen from the super-critical water. The same process may also be applicable to bio-mass, such as plant material. http://www.hcssllc.com/index.html http://www.hcssllc.com/index.html