[george76]

During World War II, as many as a half million passenger cars were run on what is called “wood gas”, also called syngas... General Patton even had some of the 3rd Army’s vehicles run on synthetic fuel that they drained from captured or abandoned German tanks.

In the 1920s, French chemist Georges Imbert invented a coal gasifier,

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2022/07/deutsche-bank-says-germans-may-need-to-switch-from-gas-to-wood-for-heating-this-winter-is-wood-to-gas-for-cars-next/

[dfwgator]

IG Farben was contracted to produce synthetic gasoline. One of the plants to produce the gasoline was built at Auschwitz, but it never produced any.