That's why it will require the U.S. Military, the world's largest oil user, to make it happen. The first integrated circuit chip cost $1,000 each. The first orders were for a new advanced bomber's navigation system. Thanks to the military having a price is no object motive, they jump started the industry. Today ICs cost pennies. That has been the sequence for pretty much all major technologies we take for granted today.
I would prefer not to use tax payer dollars.
Why benefit that technology over gas-to-liquid?
Politicians are not the best for making such decisions.