Show synthetic gas germany before the war was producing synthetic gasoline from coal at the rate of 10 million barrels a year this production has doubtless been greatly increased estimates have gone as high as 60 million barrels a year many synthetic plants P lants reportedly were set up in in eastern germany to avoid bombing it takes about five tons of coal to make a ton of gasoline to save gasoline wherever possible military and industrial trucks and tens of thousands of lorries used producer gas instead of liquid fuel according to reports |