Does this really make sense? Nuclear processes are used to generate power to drive a process which produces gasoline from CO2 in the air. That gasoline is then used... to generate power. Why not just cut out the middle step?

I don't think fully-electric cars are too far off, and when that is the case, the nuclear energy will be able to power the cars directly (or at least their batteries), along with solar power or whatever else.

Electricity is simply much more flexible since it can be produced and used in so many ways and distributed relatively cheaply. Gasoline only works for combustion engines, and it has to be manually transported. Our current infatuation with gasoline is going to look pretty stupid when we finally get to the point that it's hardly used anymore.