make your own oil.....

[BDG]

Nothing different to cracking and fractional distillation. It is a bit of nonsense really. It is only worth doing if a couple of criteria are met:

1. Electricity is so cheap and oil so expensive it is economic to create temperatures of 400C (which does take a hell of a lot of energy)
2. Electricity cannot be used for the purpose the oil is being created.

It is much cheaper to run your car on the original energy, the electricity, than expending energy in the collection, transportation and cleaning of then processing plastics.

Already it is much cheaper to travel on electricity than traditional combustion and compression engine set ups.

The only way it could become economic is if we just could not get out hands on the element to create batteries and we had ran out of crude. S' gonna HTF when we run out of crude and you would just be better off weaning yourself from oil dependant technology sooner rather than later.