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To: thackney
That sounds too high. Do you have a source for that information?

Here's a decent chart that shows approximate percentages of what we get per barrel of oil.

Basically, a barrel of oil is 42 US gallons. There is a small production gain of approximately 2.2 gallons - so net product is 44.2 gallons from a barrel.

gasoline 19.5 (44.1%)
distillate fuel oil (Includes both home heating oil and diesel fuel) 9.2 - (20.8%)
kerosene-type jet fuel 4.1 (9.3%)
residual fuel oil (Heavy oils used as fuels in industry, marine transportation and for electric power generation) 2.3 (5.2%)
liquefied refinery gasses 1.9 (4.3%)
still gas 1.9 (4.3%)
coke 1.8 (4.1%)
asphalt and road oil 1.3 (2.9%)
petrochemical feedstocks 1.2 (2.7%)
lubricants 0.5 (1.1%)
kerosene 0.2 (0.5%)
other 0.3 (0.7%)

Off the top, fuel accounts for approximately 79.4% of use (gasoline, fuel oil, jet fuel, residual fuel oil). That leaves about 20.6% for non-fuel use.

54 posted on 04/05/2011 11:08:03 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmit in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: IYAS9YAS; thackney
And now for the link to the chart....

http://www.txoga.org/articles/308/1/WHAT-A-BARREL-OF-CRUDE-OIL-MAKES

55 posted on 04/05/2011 11:10:03 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmit in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: IYAS9YAS

fuel - gasoline 19.5 (44.1%)
fuel - distillate fuel oil (Includes both home heating oil and diesel fuel) 9.2 - (20.8%)
fuel - kerosene-type jet fuel 4.1 (9.3%)
fuel - residual fuel oil (Heavy oils used as fuels in industry, marine transportation and for electric power generation) 2.3 (5.2%)
mostly fuel - liquefied refinery gasses 1.9 (4.3%)
partly fuel - still gas 1.9 (4.3%)
mostly fuel - coke 1.8 (4.1%)
not fuel - asphalt and road oil 1.3 (2.9%)
not fuel - petrochemical feedstocks 1.2 (2.7%)
not fuel - lubricants 0.5 (1.1%)
fuel - kerosene 0.2 (0.5%)
not fuel - other 0.3 (0.7%)

That looks more like 85~89% fuel to me.


56 posted on 04/05/2011 11:54:48 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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