"Jason Bleazard" <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
:> As far as I can determine, of the amount of crude oil consumed in
:> the US, gasoline accounts for a tad over 40%, and diesel/heating oil 20%.
: That's interesting. I would have expected diesel to be used more. It
: goes in every bus, train, semi truck, ship, piece of construction
: equipment, etc. There may be more cars on the road, but cars don't have
: hundred or thousand gallon fuel tanks.
That's true, but I think the cars overwhelm by sheer numbers. You
might see a semi or a big ship every so often, but cars are everywhere
you look. Plus, add in lawnmowers, weed trimmers, leaf blowers, etc.
There are just a ton of things in use by hundreds of millions of people
each day which use gas.
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