text: why wecant make oil? couldnt we take organic waste from home/work/produce then nuke it bake it and get gas? hidrcarbons are hidrocarbons, it is posible to press/bake diamonds ¿why cant we press/bake/nuke new oil? i know the existing oil is already there,it is cheaper just to transport it and process it, but still i really want somebody who knows what would it take to get there. people have done this.  when i was young, and the environmental movement was just getting off the ground, a group in massachusetts proposed doing exactly this with recyclable wastes -- such as plastic bottles -- and garbage.  two things doomed the project: the economics (it cost more to produce oil this way than to pump it from the ground and refine it), and the movement to reduce-reuse-recycle pushed by the ecowarriors.