With the high price of crude oil, and the current fluctuation in the price of oil due to the Iran war; Coal to Gasoline plants should be revisited. I am not a Chemist, but the the United States has huge deposits of Coal, and as oil prices rise, this technology may be profitable now.
In the 1970’s during the Arabian oil embargo, the United States considered this technology. It might be time to revisit it again. The global economy is linked to Crude Oil, and Crude Oil prices.
If their was a catastrophic failure in the production or distribution of Crude oil, the whole world would suffer. Militarys’ would stop, planes would cease to fly, the world would stop. Not to mention that most of the global power grids are powered by fossil fuels.
On a personal level, I was not in favor of electric cars, but as fossil fuel prices continue to be extremely volatile, and extremely sensitive to geopolitical issues; we do need alternatives. Also, fossil fuels are non renewable resources, and one day the world will run out of oil.
For the stability of economies, and the planet; the world needs to look at new forms of energy. This has been proven by a short one week conflict in the middle east, how week the transportation chain of oil can be. We as a planet are simply too dependent on oil as a fuel.
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