John Michael Kocol is a Disabled American Veteran, he suffered a stress fracture in his left foot that's never healed while running during Army basic training, resulting in significant nerve damage, and he was a member of the 141st Medical Company, a Connecticut Army National Guard unit, which was activated a few hours before the Gulf War ended; he's a Vetrepreneur at USMEXenergy.com (coal2oil.com and CO2toMethanol.com, are USMEXenergy.com companies), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and HUBZone, which was a direct result of his Harvard Master's Thesis: "Federal Reserve Expansion in Mexico," with Dr. John Womack Jr. as Thesis Director. He is also a licensed Connecticut and Massachusetts Realtor® for Century 21 Hometown Associates: KocolRealty.com.  
 
"With coal to oil, you're going backwards, with
CO2 to methanol, you're going forward." 
Dr. Nathan Lewis's comments to John M. Kocol
at the Harvard Club of Washington, 4/14/11

Coal to oil conversion is now going forward not backwards

By John M. Kocol, 12/4/11

With Dr. Nathan Lewis's CO2 to methanol conversion technology using artificial photosynthesis, coal to oil conversion will become very valuable not only from the oil that is produced from that process, but more importantly from the CO2 streams that are created by converting coal to oil.

In my opinion, these carbon dioxide streams will become commodities greatly in demand. CO2 will be turned
into methanol which is one of the cleanest fuels around. 

On the other hand, coal to oil conversion would be going backwards if the coal to oil industry decides against converting CO2 to methanol in favor of storing CO2 underground. This would be foolish. For what will we do when the CO2 begins to leak into our clean water supply and into the air?