[paul cotter]

I stand corrected then, thank you. I looked up the fischer tropsch process and I find that the products are principally straight chain alkane which are obviously highly valuable in themselves but a poor substitute for petrol(gasoline). Straight chain alkanes are prone to cause knocking(a complex subject in itself with many mechanism such as preignition, detonation and self ignition in end gas) whereas multibranched alkanes such as isooctane or aromatics fare much better.

[alancalverd]

If you can get the chain long enough you can make kerosene (JETA1) and dodecane (basis of diesel fuel), for which the demand exceeds that of gasoline.

[Bored chemist]

I'm a chemist, I can make pretty much any molecule you need.
But it takes energy to do it. Where's that coming from?
If it's fossil fuel then you are not helping much.

[vdblnkr34 (OP)]

I'm a chemist, I can make pretty much any molecule you need.
But it takes energy to do it. Where's that coming from?
If it's fossil fuel then you are not helping much.

Synthesys gas. CO + H2.