Post #2790424
2026-05-04 01:48 UTC
Actually, US oil is pretty much junk from a gasoline perspective. You can squeeze gas out of it, but you can't really get DIESEL, which is the big driver of fuel costs thanks to our entire modern delivery system, and in turn most of our manufacturing capability, relying entirely on it. You used to be able to do it by sending it through alkylation, but the last plant that handled that in the US blew up a couple years ago and it was never fixed, because why would anything need to be fixed ever.
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@Freeposity@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 17:51
Right. The oil we produce is not suitable for the refineries we have. Most people don't understand this at all. One thing I find funny is when "conservatives" say that we should not import or export oil, but only use our own. They don't realize that this is a very anti-capitalistic idea. It also flies in the face of their laissez faire capitalistic notions.