Within four years, Germany was to achieve independence from all oil imports, with a domestic capacity of 5.4 million tons. Achieving the goal of fuel self-sufficiency consumed the lion’s share of all resources invested in the Four Year Plan. But Krauch at least could build on technologies that had been in operation since the late 1920s. The one area where a truly dramatic technological step was envisioned in 1936 was the synthetic production of rubber.
