Bobbies on Bicycles
In November of 1933 this article came out in the magazine “Everyday Science and Mechanics”.
“England, which is long on coal and short on oil, has undertaken to protect an industry for the manufacture of gasoline from coal by a process of hydrogenation. It is estimated is will cost about 15 cents a gallon; while a protective tariff of 16 cents a gallon raises the cost of this fluid, or “petrol”, as the English call it, to 23 cents. With this margin, assuming a profit, it is planned to build a $12,500,000 plant, with a capacity of a hundred thousands tons of gasoline yearly. Coal products, including compressed gas in tanks, have been for some years used in motor vehicles on the continent of Europe.”
It seems that importing oil has been an issue for a long time but using coal to produce gasoline has it's own set of problems.
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