– Why can’t we just ‘produce’ gasoline, like synthetically?

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– Why can’t we just ‘produce’ gasoline, like synthetically?

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We can but it is a bit self defeating. The point of gasoline is that it takes little energy to get a lot of energy out of it. Synthetic gasoline is the exact opposite, a lot of energy in to get less energy out. Just because something can be dobe doesn’t mean it is worth doing.