DaveinOlyWA
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dgpcolorado said:This is not true. While it takes quite a bit of energy to refine oil into gasoline, much of it comes from natural gas, co-generation, and the burning of components of the crude oil. Some time ago someone took that energy number, expressed in kWh, and assumed, incorrectly, that it was the electricity input into the process. Not so.jstack6 said:...It takes more electricity to refine OIL into gas than driving on that electricity...
sorry but electricity is electricity and its method of generation does not make a difference. what does make a difference is the accepted trade offs. its one thing to accept the pollution from NG produced juice to power the EVs but to accept the pollution to create a product that will produce more pollution is a double whammy and is before we consider the logistics of controlling pollution from a single smoke stack verses millions of tailpipes