In the USA, food sold as "organic" has no one specific definition. Food labeling has always been a sort-of free-for-all.
A few years ago, L.L. Bean got sued for selling "counterfeit" maple syrup that was actually made from beet sugar. I was curious how it would be settled legally, but I think L.L. Bean settled out of court.
In the USA, most public attention to "synthetic oil", going back to WWII, was about oil made from coal. That's what Hitler did, and that's what our US miltary has done.
Now? There are two official definitions that I know of.
#1 is from the IEA with members from all over the world, including Canada and the USA. Their defintion is: "Synthetic fuel/oil as any liquid fuel obtained from coal or natural gas"
#2 is from the EIA which is a USA agency only. No foreign members. Its def: Synthetic fuel/oil is a product produced from coal, natural gas, or biomass feedstocks through chemical conversion into synthetic crude and/or synthetic liquid products.
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