1.   As a freshman he bucked his leadership by opposing subsidies to synthetic fuel producers.

2.   During World War II, he did research on synthetic fuel at a Japanese Army laboratory.

3.   He led a large team of chemists and engineers in building the first synthetic fuel plant, in Johannesburg.

4.   Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, with U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, testify on behalf of the Beulah synthetic fuel plant today.

5.   Synthetic fuels exist, and automobile manufacturers are already producing electric cars and internal combustion engines that run on grain-alcohol fuels.

6.   The company was already looking at new technologies aimed at cutting costs, increasing output and widening the product range of synthetic fuels and petrochemicals, it said.

7.   The government threw in the towel after wasting billions on so-called synthetic fuels.

8.   The subsidy cuts have spurred Sasol to examine its unit that produces synthetic fuel to minimize the expected loss.

9.   The synthetic fuel is similar to diesel and can be burned in diesel engines.