the synthetic oil program was inefficient since the process is inefficient, but it was made worse by not pushing completion until the war was nearly over. so they basically bore the costs but did not have time to reap the benefits.
the same thing was done with the producer gas vehicles, they were only implemented during wartime, thus you have the cumbersome attachments to deal with under dire conditions but no time for the fuel savings to be stockpiled.
in a practical sense, the Soviets grasped how desperate the German fuel situation was during their period of cooperation. if they had stockpiled fuel, they might have pushed the Soviets for grains and/or minerals?
And there it is...
The reply I was waiting for.
So let's talk about organic chemistry and the overall validity of the investment made into the field.
Ready to go?
FYI ? Fischer-Tropsch.org is a basic fundament.
This brings me back around to my initial thesis stated upthread: most folks have no concept of organic chemistry.
Even less as with regards to the basic fundaments that would keep such a facility online in the 9/44 to 5/45 timeframe.
Out of the big (IG Farben, Bosch, BASF, Erdol AG[RWHG]) Companies involved in synthetic production in Nazi Germany? All of these corporations experienced significant complications as with regards to "car loading". (and delivery by the DRB) .
And that was kind of because the WAllies had "Messed" the railway net up to a point where nobody could rely on "anything" getting from here to there.
And hence the utter collapse of Germany.