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Originally Posted by freebeard

This is good news. I've got a 1/43rd 356 Speedster (red w/ black Glasspar top) in front of my monitor.

Wasn't this what the Germans got bombed for in WWII? ...maybe not:


I wonder about Cool Planet, so I went looking. They're mentioned in this paywalled report

Green Gasoline Market Overview, Merger and Acquisitions , Drivers, Restraints and Industry Forecast by 2027 : Reports and Data

Yeah, they lost WW-II same way they lost WW-I. Oil and rubber shortage.
Rommel never got N. Africa or the Middle East. His Opel and Ford supply trucks burned more fuel that they could carry to the Afrika Korps.They lost Maikop, and Ploesti got bombed. I. G. Farben's LEUNA Werke was cranking out as much synthetic fuel as possible, then we bombed it. Germany had actually lost the war in 1942. It was a long death spiral. Same for Japan. No fuel. Pine roots couldn't save 'em.