This fits in perfectly with the liberal doctrine, in creating artificial scarcities that result in a huge profit to a few, who may be strictly regulated by the dominant political power, while providing no net benefit to the rest of the population.
Now, part of the planned transition to “new sources” of energy would include natural gas, which we have in plentiful supply here in the US, and there are alternative sources to vastly expand the recovery and use of natural gas, which is primarily methane.
Compressed natural gas, CNG, has a rather low energy density per weight unit, as compared to a commonly used motor fuel, gasoline, and Diesel fuel has an even higher energy density per weight unit. Ethanol, however, is far lower energy density than either gasoline or Diesel fuel. For that reason alone, ethanol as a motor fuel is a failure.
The petrochemical technicians are rather clever lads, and over the years, they have developed several processes to convert very thick, heavy crude oil fractions into much lighter gasoline and Diesel fuel. By a reverse of this same procedure, compounds like methane may be converted to higher energy density hydrocarbons, producing a much cleaner-burning fuel than that produced from petroleum alone.
There shall be no severing ourselves from carbon based fuels, ever. Not even from the form of “fossil” fuel with the highest energy density of all, coal, or its derivative, coke, which is just about pure carbon. Back in the early 20th Century, German scientists had perfected a number of processes to convert coal directly to a liquid fuel, using steam injection into a bed of coke that had been heated to incandescence, resulting in conversion to carbon monoxide and free diatomic hydrogen, both potent and high-energy fuels when burned in the presence of oxygen. Or the free agent hydrogen and carbon monoxide could be forced through a catalyst layer, and reformulated into various hydrocarbons, creating a synthetic fuel mixture that is both more pure and more consistent than that extracted from distillation of petroleum.
But the liberal mindset has expressly prohibited this route to energy independence for this country.
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