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The cost of synfuels is presently too high to make them commercially attractive.
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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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The Energy Secretary also insists that synfuels are needed to decrease American dependence on Middle East energy supplies and "to send a strong message to the Saudis."
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In Sawhill's place, Reagan appointed Edward Noble, an Oklahoma oilman who is skeptical about synfuels.
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Even so, some large oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron and Sohio, are investing heavily in synfuels.
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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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