I just watched "The Formula", Anyone here familiar with that film?

[CatWoman]

A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WWII to make gasoline from synthetic products thereby eliminating the necessity for oil --- and oil companies. A major oil company uncovers this and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.

It has me wondering -- how much truth is actually in that movie? Or am I hearing voices again?

[Cleita]

1. We know that ethanol and other bio-fuels are

out there, yet no one can seem to get them out there into the marketplace in a large way. It would seem that our oil company bought politicians make sure that any efforts remain small or fail. I would say there is a lot of truth in that movie.

[eleny]

2. Where did you get it - On Demand or rental or just showing on a regulartv channel?

Sounds like a good one.

[CatWoman]

4. Comcast, on demand

under "Free Movies" - "Preferred Selections"

:hi:

[eleny]

6. They aren't offering it here but I saved my search to check for it again

It's bound to show up. Thanks for the tip since I never saw this one! :hi:

[NNN0LHI]

3. We already can make fuel from synthetic products thereby eliminating the necessity for oil

Its called ethanol. Problem is it takes more energy to produce ethanol that we can retrieve from it.

Don

[sofa king]

5. Same with Fischer-Tropsch

Which was the actual process by which the Germans made fuel during World War II. In the fall of 1944 through their surrender in the spring of 1945, the Germans used up all their food reserves of sugar beets and potatoes to feed the synthetic fuel plants. The German people were only narrowly saved from starvation by American food shipments during the occupation.

We're on the verge of visiting the same disaster upon the entire world by diverting our food production into fuel, which will leave our SUVs functional for another year or two while a billion people starve.

[formercia]

7. South Africa's SASOL used the Nazi technology for decades

a lot of it was funded by the Bush Gang and US financial interests.

The Nazis used slave labor, including US POWs who were or thought to be Jewish in building an underground facility to produce synthetic gasoline from Coal.