[Land-speed] Petrol breakdown, not LSR

Bryan Savage b.a.savage at wildblue.net
Wed Jul 18 05:42:25 MDT 2007


We're in better shape with crude than natural gas.
I think all of the power plants in California run on NG.
Most California NG comes from Canada.
Bryan


Bobbyhotrods at comcast.net wrote:
> I got to thinking that Dave might be right, he usually is, dammit, so I nosed around the web and found 47% of crude becomes gasoline, 23% becomes home heating oil/ diesel, 10% jet fuel, 4% propane, 18% other products like chemicals and plastics.
> Nearly 60% of what we use is imported.
> I couldn't find the ratio of fuels used by power plants. I'm clueless as to how much oil is used by them, maybe not alot compared to coal, gas, nukes and hydro.
> Hard to fold in natural gas usage. I'm not sure there's a looming problem there anyway. BJ


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