http://www.chadsnews.com/2007/08/22/creating-oil-instead-of-pumping-it/ News items and other various tidbits that Chad Cloman finds interesting enough to share with his friends. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:03:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 http://www.chadsnews.com/2007/08/22/creating-oil-instead-of-pumping-it/#comment-535 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:58:59 +0000 http://www.chadsnews.com/2007/08/22/creating-oil-instead-of-pumping-it/#comment-535 People made synthetic gasoline in WWII, so its not that we can't make it. And we have relied on nature (crude oil, coal, natural gas) to provide most of our energy needs. Certainly oil was an incredibly cheap way to get energy for almost a century. And no one cared about pollution. Oil is cheap and easy. Converting food (aka corn) into gasoline is neither. People made synthetic gasoline in WWII, so its not that we can’t make it. And we have relied on nature (crude oil, coal, natural gas) to provide most of our energy needs. Certainly oil was an incredibly cheap way to get energy for almost a century. And no one cared about pollution. Oil is cheap and easy. Converting food (aka corn) into gasoline is neither.

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