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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
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.
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You will believe what you want to believe .
But the simple fact is that it does not take 6KWh of ELECTRICITY to refine a gallon of petrol .
Part of any refinery is the electrical generation system , which produces more than enough electricity for all of its own use , & puts the extra into the grid .
And as for running out of petrol , it is not something anyone alive today needs to worry about . Current worldwide reserves are plenty for the next 70 years worth , & the big oil companies don,t even bother looking for more until they are down to about 20 to 30 years of reserve left .