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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SW-User

Because money talks..they get paid selling gas, and unfortunately, it's a way to control the consumers. (Us.)
The more power they have over what we spend, the more control they have.

TurtlePink · 22-25, F

@SW-User you’re right

SW-User

@TurtlePink I sound like a conspiracy theorist lol.

TurtlePink · 22-25, F

@SW-User No you actually don’t because I view it the same way you do and a lot of the stuff is absolutely TRUE!!!!

SW-User

@TurtlePink It's kinda sad..but yeah..money equals success. Greed creates need, and large corporations make bank.

Pretzel · 70-79, M

@SW-User just an economist

SomeMichGuy · M

@SW-User I'm not sure what you mean by controlling us through gas, but the oil & utility companies were put in charge of a lot of alternative energy research, and that did not really work out.

If we had just been serious back when OPEC slapped the West in the face (1973, the "energy crisis"), we'd already be SOOO much further along the path to reducing greenhouse gases, fixing the C budget problem, achieving energy independence, etc.

So much from a sandstorm which affected helicopters in rhe desert...smh