Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

On 5/22/2024 8:38 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

If the lack of lubrication oil is very needful, we can always reverse
the CO2 process and make oil from the trace amount of CO2 in the air.
We can do this already, the current cost is around $15 to $20 per gallon
(SWAG).  The majority of the cost is the expensive catalysts and the
high energy requirement.  Also, the process makes a lot of glycerine
(1/3 to 2/3) which is usually landfilled.

 Yes, there are precision oils that are synthesized in a fashion not TOO
different (polymerization of ethane).  Also all these new ester oils which
are basically synthetic whale oil and make disk drives and high speed
shutters far more reliable.  But this is expensive.  Nye 140B is more like
$15 to $20 for a half-ounce at Grainger.
--scott

I was talking about production cost.  You are talking about retail cost.   Two very different things.
Lynn