In 1944 General George S. Patton's Third Army was racing across southern France. In his haste to be the first U.S. commander to cross into Germany, however, Patton overextended his supply lines. His armored columns ground to a dead stop. Faced the choice of waiting until he could be resupplied or draining the fuel of captured German vehicles, Patton chose the latter. His tanks and armored personnel carriers continued to steamroll toward Germany, powered by the German's own ersatz gasoline – synthetic fuel manufactured from coal."
The point we had earlier wanted to make was, not just that Germany, under extraordinarily adverse economic and industrial conditions, was able to make oil-type liquid fuels from coal, but those fuels were compatible, apparently, without modification, for use in engines made in America.
(And, note, this is documented by our own, US, Dept. of Energy - not some fringe web-site or blog.)
Germany, Mike, back then, in war time, with all it's exigencies. Why not the US, and WV, now, when our homeland isn't under siege?