# Don't Fill Our Gas Tanks With Coal

*Published:* 2007-05-31
*Author:* Bill Chameides

Yesterday, *The New York Times* published [an editorial](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/opinion/30wed1.html) about coal-to-liquid technology. Their warning against so-called energy solutions that actually worsen climate change is right on target.

For more, check out a post I wrote last month, about [why coal-to-liquid technology is a bad idea](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2007/04/24/should-we-fill-our-gas-tanks-with-coal/).