AHC: reduce 1930s-1940s German need for petrol

Keep something in mind: if you increase use/consumption of coal, you've got to deliver it, & that means more barge traffic, which means you need to build more... So, are they steel (a bottleneck...) or wood? And what powers them? Does that burn more oil?
Steam Engines to the rescue. Use Steel, than wasting it in Atlantic Wall rebar
 
I wonder if the coal-water slurry or 'densified' coal would be good for rail or barges/other naval vessels?

Biggest problem I saw the the link above, is that the storage tanks need to be stirred or agitated, as the coal particles will settle, given time
 
Biggest problem I saw the the link above, is that the storage tanks need to be stirred or agitated, as the coal particles will settle, given time
I Think only when in use, so shouldn’t be that Big a problem. Many engines used a starting engine that could also drive the slurry resuspension.
 
Yet all the rolling stock was made available to the SS and SD as requested.
So Priorities-- you want to keep wheels turning, or send Jews up the Chimney?
Choose one.
When you say "you," do you mean us, or do you mean the Nazis? Because only one of those "yous" is actually making decisions about railway timetables.
 
When you say "you," do you mean us, or do you mean the Nazis? Because only one of those "yous" is actually making decisions about railway timetables.

Since Germany was in the quoted material I was replying to, who do you think?
 
Somethings that are available in the 30s:
  • Natural gas, for industrial feedstock, energy, and domestic heating. Leaves vast amounts of coal for conversion.
  • Already mentioned but good to reiterate both riverine and rail transport. Riverine you could even go with ferro-cement barges to save on steel.
  • Do an actual search for Oil in the Reich and the part of Europe you control/are allied. OTL in 1944 the Germans used 120.547 Barrels per day. Non-Soviet or -UK Europe has fields enough to produce 622.309 Bpd almost all of it untapped in 1940. Even just going for the full extended Romanian fields will yield 208.415 Bpd.
  • Don't go on any side trips, leave Denmark, Norway, Egypt, and the Balkans alone.
  • Move the Kriegsmarine to Bordeaux after the fall of France, then chain it to the dock. You can secure Hegioland by beaching the two pre-Dreads and using them as shore gunnery. Add mines, bombers, and schnellboot and no one is going to raid the German coast(they didn't in 1944-5). Plus having the Kriegsmarine heavies down south is going to bollocks any idea of the Normandy landings.
 
I'd propose once again the wider usage of diesel engines in general, and for the 'slower' part of the Luftwaffe in particular. The minimum specific fuel consumption was 160-170 g/PSh for the Jumo 204 to 207, vs. 205-215 g/PSh for the Jumo 211 line. Diesel fuel is also 11% more dense than gasoline, thus the consumption expressed in liters vs. PSh shows even better advantage for the diesel engines.
PSh, or HPh = one horsepower multiplied by one hour
 
Top