Quote Originally Posted by zadok
The synthetic petrol plant near Waitara has been churning out synthetic petrol from natural gas for years now. Apparently that is blended with the imported fuel. Sounds like a brilliant idea to me and I've wondered for a long time now why there haven't been more plants built. Natural gas seems to be in abundant supply. We have masses off the north west here. The oil companies wouldn't like it but. My heart bleeds for them, not.

That plant was a natural gas -to methanol -to gasoline process (it made methanol as an intermediate product). IIRC it stopped making gasoline some years ago when acquired by Methanex (big Canadian methanol producer) and has since been producing only methanol.