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the pump; imagine if suddenly we were unable to find gasoline or diesel available at any price? How would we get to work? Shop for groceries? To the doctor s? Or even run my three cylinder fuel-thrifty thirty plus years old Deutz diesel tractor? Ffolitical problems in Venezuela. Iran. Nigeria. Iraq could suddenly result in a drop in available supplies of crude!. With demand so very close (less than 2 percent) to supply shortages would suddenly blossom, worldwide and prices explode!
What have we done to prepare for such a contingency? VERY LITTLE! A few weeks’ supply in the national oil reserve won’t last long. Yet we have, in our own country enough energy in the form of coal to supply our energy needs for hundreds of years. You might say “But we can't put cool in our cars!” Yes we can!! In the early 1920s. two German chemists. Fischer and Tropsch. developed a method to convert coal into liquid fuel. Having tittle crude, the Germans ran much of their war machine during WW II on such “artificial" fuel. Tbday it is used in South Africa; Shell Oil has a plant in Indonesia, producing “crude oil" using an
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