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Originally Posted by radz282003
Speaking of... WHY CAN'T WE GET SOME SYTHETIC ALTERNATIVE TO FOSSILE FUELS?! I'm sure they'd be more expensive, at least intially, but if they can do that with oils, and so many other things, why not this? Why can't we get something that produces at least the same power with less emissions for a reasonable price? My dad will say it's because of "Big Oil" but I'm not totally convenced.
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Well...first of all. "Synthetic" means "man-made", traditionally...So, Synthetic oils are misrepresented, because they are NOT man-made. What a synthetic oil is, basically...a highly-refined motor oil. It's a cleaner, purer oil and gets refined to have midly different characteristics from standard oil. It's not "created", though. It still comes from petroleum.
As far as an 'synthetic' alternative to fossil fuels...how's this?
http://www.greencrudeproduction.com/
My biggest hope for the world right now, believe it or not, is that this (^) takes off like a bat outta hell.