Oil not just petrol only16 Dec 2020 13:09
For all them that honk the car spells down fall for the Oil Business Read below.
Enough gasoline to drive a medium-sized car over 450km (280 miles).
Enough distillate fuel to drive a large truck for almost 65km (40 miles). If jet fuel fraction is included, that same truck can run nearly 80km (50 miles).
Nearly 70 kWh of electricity at a power plant generated by residual fuel.
About 1.8 kg (4 lbs) of charcoal briquettes.
Enough propane to fill 12 small (14.1 ounce) cylinders for home, camping or workshop use.
Asphalt to make about 3.8 L (one gallon) of tar for patching roofs or streets.
Lubricants to make about a 0.95 L (one quart) of motor oil.
Wax for 170 birthday candles or 27 wax crayons.
But that’s not all. After producing all of the above products, there’s also enough petrochemicals leftover to be used as a base for one of the following:
39 polyester shirts
750 pocket combs
540 toothbrushes
65 plastic dustpans
23 hula hoops
65 plastic drinking cups
195 one-cup measuring cups
11 plastic telephone housings
135 four-inch rubber balls
Oil is not a one-trick pony, and the gooey black liquid actually has thousands of applications. The above serves as one example of how a barrel could be used, but here’s a list of many other oil applications. It includes everything from guitar strings to antihistamines.
Whatever your opinion is of fossil fuels, it’s still pretty astonishing what can be produced out of each barrel of oil.