>>Soon? Seems like it is taking unreasonably long. We can clone a freakin sheep but we can't make a vehicle run efficiently on something other than gasoline?
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>We can already make diesel from coal, which we have a ton of, and it produces a cleaner diesel fuel with less green house gas. But no one one wants to do it because it will cost about $1.80 for a gallon of diesel

What? You'd winge over $1.80 a gallon! We're paying 90-odd p for a litre of the stuff! You don't know you're born!

>and as soon as we start producing it the price of oil will drop because we don't need it. Then it won't be cost effective to produce it out of coal anymore and we will start using oil again. It's kind of like a catch 22.

Yes but the oil will all be gone in a few decades anyway, so mi's well starts now.