[SampleMan]

You are correct. Also, kerosene always came from coal, but it wasn't broken down the way they are talking about now.

The trick is to protect their capital investment from falling oil prices. How? Sell vast quantities into the futures market. This is what they are doing with wind power generated electricity.

[Rodney King]

The trick is to protect their capital investment from falling oil prices. How? Sell vast quantities into the futures market

The problem is that a futures market for an untested fuel production system doesn't exist. Nobody is going to take the other side of the counterparty risk.