If they came to Mount Carmel Mr Campbell would tell them, straight, that the country was a disaster with no diesel or electricity, tea or sugar; so he wasn't paying a cent to them.

Codexis's enzymes and bacteria can turn sugar into molecules called straight-chain alkanes which have between 12 and 16 carbon atoms in them. Such alkanes are the main ingredients of diesel fuel.

Petroleum acids was removed from straight-run diesel distillate through chemical reaction and extraction under moderate conditions using an alkaline complex solution.