First, an excerpt:
"This innovative process captures a portion of the carbon dioxide from the stack gas of the Coleson Cove Power Generating Station, and then produces high purity methanol product. Carbon dioxide emission is abated and a valuable fuel is produced in the process."
We've compiled a body of similar information, and will be transmitting it. This one, though, is significant in that it reports on an actual reduction to practice of CO2 capture from coal/carbon utilization processes, and it's subsequent transformation into more liquid fuel.
The sum is: We can utilize our coal to supply our energy needs, and then use the byproducts of the utilization processes to make more liquid fuel. The use of coal doesn't create pollutants, it generates valuable raw materials as by-products.