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Originally Posted by Tel 911S
They do not use 6KWh of ELECTRICITY to refine a gallon of petrol.
Electricity is much too expensive to use for the heat for the furnaces .
So cutting down the amount of petrol refined would not leave more power in the grid .
In fact there would be less as part of the refining process produces electricity which is fed into the grid . One of the last big refineries to close down , Corytown , always ran on oil . When the refinery part shut down they left the CHPs there as a power station . Although I believe it has now changed to gas energy .
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The process of refining petrol takes an entire refinery, not just some furnances. There are a lot of bits of equipment that do require pure electricity to power them. Even right down to the office block and workshops which the staff use. When calculating the power that something takes, you need to also include the support systems around it. If you did not refine petrol, you would not require those support systems.
It takes 6 kwh of electricity to refine a gallon of petrol.
Not that this matters. Petrol will run out. Electric cars will have to replace petrol simply because we won't have petrol.