You think that just because Hitler fought the Second World War on CTL that it would work here?
It's hard to believe that there would be any savings due to fuel diversity but that's exactly how it might shake out. The Euro diesel cars would do very well here if the fuel costs weren't so high
and the environmental laws so strict. CTL might solve that in that the sulphur levels might be so
low as to not require the urea converters now needed. Petroleum diesel might end up in locomotives
and trucks might use either. There's a lot of work on an ethanol based fuel cell right now and that ethanol well could come from algae based systems as well as biodiesel from the same said
algae. I think we're moving away from one sized all fuel for vehicles and then the only problem
becomes distribution and availability. It isn't mentioned much but the domestic economy could
become almost self sufficient based on total domestic energy supply.