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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) _ Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney included West Virginia coal in his vision of an energy-independent U.S. on Thursday.
Romney advocated coal-to-liquid and coal-to-gas efforts along with other energy sources such as biodiesel fuel and wind, solar and nuclear power. Romney touted conservation as well.
  Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP) 
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"Our cars don't make a lot of sense in some cases, and our homes can be awful fuel inefficient as well," Romney told about 300 members and guests of the Republican Executive Committee for Kanawha County, the state's most populous county and the home of Charleston, its capital.
Romney told reporters afterward that the federal government must offer such aid as strategic investments to offset what he termed manipulation of the energy markets by oil producing nations.
"We can't simply look and say, the market will solve this problem," Romney said.
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Associated Press Writers Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington, Jon Gambrell in Little Rock, Ark., Deborah Baker and Barry Massey in Santa Fe, N.M., and Lawrence Messina in Charleston, W.Va., contributed to this report.
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