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Why hasn’t Elon Musk invent synthetic petroleum? Why do we have to dig for oil in the Middle East? Why not invent synthetic oil?

>> No.11066819

>>11066816
We have invented synthetic petroleum. But it is expensive and patented

>> No.11066822

I would be way much more expensive to make sythetic petroleum than buy it

>> No.11066836

Americans have their own oil on their own land more than enought. They don't physically go to middle east and dig it out of the ground. The reason why Americans fucked up brown people in sand land is because those brown people had lots of oil and then refused to accept petro dollar and wanted to use it to trade with their own currency which would fuck American economy devaluing petro dollar.

>> No.11066841

Why not skipping a step and making synthetic speed already?

>> No.11066855

>>11066816
There's battery tech. The price/watt of battery shrank a factor of 10 in the last 10 years. From 1000/kw to close to 100/kw today.

>> No.11066863

>>11066816
Synthetic oil is like WW2 tech, anon.

>> No.11066869

>>11066816
>>>>/thirdreich/

>> No.11066908

>>11066816
What do you mean invent? We've already had the technology to make synthetic fuels for decades. We can literally make that shit out of air and water. It's just not as cheap, yet.

Here, this paper goes into details about Hydrogen-Carbon/Nitrogen based fuels.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5089635/