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Isn’t there a way to make gasoline in a laboratory?

Like I know gasoline is a byproduct of refining crude oil and everything , but how come we can't just make it by combining the base chemicals? Isn't gasoline just hydrogen and carbon atoms? How come we haven't figured out a way to reproduce it completely synthetically? It's probably a dumb series of questions but it's one that has always bothered me because I've never been given or found a good answer.
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Tracos · 51-55, M
it takes too much energy to be efficient
@Tracos Yes, it would typically seem to be the case.

See the Chinese researchers' paper I point out elsewhere in this post for a different notion.