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The cost of synfuels is presently too high to make them commercially attractive.
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Ever climbing costs have kept estimated prices of producing synfuels persistently dancing ahead of world crude prices.
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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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Trautschold Jr., general manager of Mobil's synfuels division: "If we had solicited money from the Government, we would have had to hire probably ten more auditors just to meet the Energy Department's demand for information."
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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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Meanwhile, alternative sources of energy, such as solar heating and synfuels, are not being developed rapidly because of their high cost.
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