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The cost of synfuels is presently too high to make them commercially attractive.
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Biotech comes to the drugstore Skeptics have wondered whether genetically engineered drugs might become the synfuels of the 1980s, crippled by uneconomical costs and uncertain usefulness.
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Edwards, on the other hand, maintains that synfuels will never become viable without Government support because private companies will not spend the billions of dollars needed for the risky programs.
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The House passed a smaller synfuels program in early summer but is expected to accept the Senate's larger bill with minor reservations.
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Arnold Krammer, a history professor who conducted synfuels research during the oil shocks of the 1970s, thinks the time is right to make a comprehensive study of German production techniques.
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Part of Denver's office glut reflects the collapse of the synfuels industry, which was to have produced high-cost fuels from shale, tar sands and other sources.
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