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Various processes to make synthetic gasoline were patented more than hundred years ago, and at some times (ww2-1950ies) it has been successfully done at scale.

We don't do it because currently oil is so obscenely abundant and cheap, that it's not economically worthwhile to seriously consider alternatives to just pumping some more oil out of the ground.



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