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No it isn't. Crude oil is finite, but gasoline could be synthesized from other carbon and hydrogen sources (up to and including CO~2~ + H~2~O + solar power) if you really wanted to.
Cool.
The process of synthesizing it is inefficient and expensive. Companies have gone bankrupt trying to make it profitable, so it really doesn't seem like that's an answer here, especially when we have cars that don't require any such fuel already on the roads.
Sure seems easier.