Solid fuel needs buffs to encourage it's use earlier in the game

An easy solution would be to make petroleum gas the ingredient for something you'll always need from early to end game. Then you could crack the overflow down to petroleum gas and use that. Then you wouldn't have the problem of having an overflow. Especially in early game I had often to way too much petroleum gas and ended up removing and replacing the petroleum gas tank. You just don't need that much plastic and sulfur in early game.

Make petroleum gas an ingredient for the chemical science pack or sulfur as it is right now. And make petroleum gas the most efficient liquit gas for solid fuel. This would probably make solid fuel more attractive in early game as it can be used to remove the overflow. I think this and rocket fuel are good reasons for solid fuel to not get removed.

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