They can make fake dimonds, fake wood, etc...but that cant create fake gasoline?

Question

Gasoline, also called petrol, is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons and enhanced with benzenes to increase octane ratings.
In chemistry, a hydrocarbon is any chemical compound that consists only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). They all contain a carbon backbone, called a carbon skeleton, and have hydrogen atoms attached to that backbone. (Often the term is used as a shortened form of the term aliphatic hydrocarbon.) Most hydrocarbons are combustible.

WHY CANT WE MAKE FAKE GAS, I KNOW WE HAVE SIMULAR STUFF TO IT...BUT NOT FAKE GASOLINE, OIUR CARS WILL NEVER KNOW THE DIFFERANCE

Answer 1

They CAN make fake gas, and it is called water! There are plenty of scam artists out there who will be glad to sell you little pills that you put in your gas tank and then fill up with water and they claim you can drive with that.

They like to say that it is an invention that the "unscrupulous, evil" oil companies bought from the inventor and then buried, and that they have retrieved the patent after a long court battle, and are only offering it to you to get the working capital to market it properly. and then they will go into business and put the oil companies out of business.

Of course, you know what happens. You drive out a great distance to some remote location, they take your money and you are left unable to chase them with a tank full of water. (Funny how they never own up to the fact that when they take over the oil companies, it won't be immoral or selfish for THEM to get the huge profits!)

Now, if I understand your question correctly, what you actually meant to ask was, Can we synthesize gas or some similar hydrocarbon to run our vehicles on? They answer is yes, but not as inexpensively as we can make gasoline. We have to pay for the energy somehow, whether it is in the form of electricity or burning another fuel, to cause the chemical compounds to form. We get energy out of the burning (breaking) of the hydrocarbon bonds in gasoline; we would have to put in that same amount of energy we expect to get out, and expend even more, because our industrial processes are not 100% efficient.

We may be able to use simpler hydrocarbons than petroleum. It is estimated that at the bottom of the Atlantic are many trillions of barrels worth of methane (CH4) compounds. Getting to them, extracting them and using them will be possible. But we will wait until it is economically necessary to do so. That's just human nature.

Answer 2

Last time I checked, what you call "fake gasoline" is called vegetable oil. Oil is from years old carbon compounds, where as vegetable oil is made in hours to days from carbon compounds.
Oh and someone said "gasoline out of corn" this is not gasoline they are making, they are making ethanol. Its totally bogus PR stuff also. Brazil autos are 100% supported by ethanol derived from corn. Its the corps slowing down R&D. The original autos actually ran on corn ethanol, it is not a new idea at all.

Answer 3

firstly fake wood just looks like wood
and dianond is just an alotrope of carbon in which each carbon is tetrahedrally boded to four other carbons so you could easily make fake diamond by subjecting it to high pressure and temp even though it is expensive it is cheaer than real ones
and the gasoline is a mixture of long chained hydrocarbons mainly octane c8h18 which can be made too but it will be more costly than natural gasoline

Answer 4

I probably requires more energy to make hydrocarbons than you would get in return. Also, the oil companies have politicians in their back pockets, so it's difficult to fund research into alternative fuels. I have wondered how come we can get some scientists in a room and in a few years create a hydrogen bomb, but in 100 years, we cannot come up with a viable replacement for the internal combustion engine. The answer is money and politics.

Answer 5

I'm not sure if this is the right question. The advantage of gas is that the petroleum that already exists can be cheapily converted into a useful fuel. For example, we can "make" hydrogen (from water) which is an environmentally friendly fuel. We also "make" ethanol, which comes from corn or sugarcane. But the market still favors gas because it is cheap and powerful. It is unlikely that we would ever come up with a way to make gas in a way that is cheap enough to be economical.

Answer 6

Every year billions of cubic tons of natural gas is burned off to speed up the removal of oil. Here in Thailand, not far from my home, Hess Oil burned gas for almost two years before they could get to the oil???? Alternatives to oil are numerous, I would like to see a peoples electro/gas car that can be plugged in at any car parking point and used by anyone with a card key. Clear the cities of all other transport and have thousands of tiny peoples cars. a memory of the last user through his key card would ensure that they are not vandalized or misused, The whole world would benefit, except for those who control us through the price of oil.

Answer 7

I am working at a company that manufactures cellulose ethanol, or biofuel. it is possible to use this fuel to run cars and such at a lower emissions level. Some companies in the US have found ways to develop such fuels through processing corn. However, it is found to take more money/fuel to process the corn then return in ethanol. The company i am at however, uses straw, a low cost otherwise, useless resource that is in abundance. We are currently only in our demo stage, however, we are hoping by next year that we will be able to build a fullscale plant and get it running in the next couple years. When ethanol becomes more available, it will become cheaper than gas and i believe will become the next generation in fuel.

Answer 8

Your examples of fake diamond and fake wood aren't required to do anything other than LOOK like the real thing. Gasoline has to DO somthing to be useful: it has to burn to give off heat.

Answer 9

Either way, you'll be using a basic material that there is only a set amount of in the earth (non-renewable resource). It's like asking, why can't we take two hydrogens and one oxygen (H20) and just make more water... I don't even know if this can be done but the point is, there's only a set amount of those materials.

Answer 10

Well...that is funny...water could be considered fake gasoline. It looks similar...but is not the real thing...now is it? I guess they might need to do something to make it smell and give off fumes as well..
The point is....would fake gas even work.