Air Fuel Synthesis- The Fading Carbon Footprint

Most people are aware that cars are some of the biggest pollutants that threaten our earth. And most people know about the efforts being made to reduce emissions with smog control laws and increasingly fuel efficient designs. One company's efforts though, however important, has relatively no reputation in America. Air Fuel Synthesis, or AFS, is a company based in the UK, working to make petroleum fuels carbon neutral. This means that the net amount of carbon compounds produced by burning these fuels is reduced to zero by offsetting the emissions. How can they do this? By using the most common form of pollution reduction: recycling. More specifically, by recycling the same carbon compounds emitted by burning the fuels and using it them to make more fuel.
Besides power, the burning of gasoline in an engine produces water and carbon dioxide. In order to synthesize one unit of fuel, it takes approximately 4.5 units of water and 3 unites of carbon. AFS begins by turning the H2O and CO2 into methanol using an updated version of the process Mobil used in the 90s. And then they turn the methanol into petroleum based fuel. The synthesis process, aside from producing the fuel, also emits oxygen. This new fuel has been tested and proven; it works just as well as natural fossil fuels.
Now, why should you care? Because once AFS puts their first commercial refinery into production, given that it works according to plan, the price of fuel will be in their hands. Prices could rise, fall, or stay constant. Wondering which it will be? Well, so am I.