One such plan, called Anything Into Oil was promoted by Discover Magazine and Fortune Magazine in 2004, even though it absurdly claimed to be able to convert a refrigerator into "light Texas crude" by the application of high pressure steam.
Ti predlogi običajno trdijo, da se pretvori vse ali velik del obstoječih smeti v olje in včasih trdijo, da proizvajajo toliko olja, da bo svet odslej bogat z tekočimi gorivi.