Aw come on — we just went through all this trouble to take over Iraq, and now we find out we can make oil out of… anything?
Anything into
Oil Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste
into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year
By Brad Lemley for Discover Magazine.

In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil.
Really.
…Because depolymerization takes apart materials at the molecular level, Appel says, it is “the perfect process for destroying pathogens.” On a wet afternoon in Carthage, he smiles at the new plant