You're correct, Streets. Petcoke is only useful as a source for electric power plants (I thought that's what I said...). It's not an alternate fuel for cars but an alternate source to coal which, while plentiful, is difficult to obtain due to the NIMBY factor and others. We ALREADY make it, it'd be nice to be able to USE it, instead of shipping it to Europe.

It does nothing to decrease our dependence on foreign oil. Only tapping our own (ANWR, etc.) will allow us to do that. If you want less expensive gasoline (it's already the cheapest on the planet) and the option of giving OPEC the middle finger when they want to "squeeze down on the valve" and jack up the price of crude oil, vote early (vote often !) for those candidates who favor domestic oil exploration and production.