Timeline for Is gasoline or Diesel refining less sustainable, per energy output?
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| Feb 10, 2013 at 5:16 | history | edited | Chris Travers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2013 at 5:07 | comment | added | Chris Travers | The fact is that gasoline and diesel come from different components of the crude oil. Once you are refining crude oil, the question is what you do with the components, not which components you decide to keep. Now, if the question is whether breaking apart hydrocarbons to make shorter chains is less sustainable than not doing so, I would answer that it is (and diesel might become more preferred if we use oil than gas would be for that reason) but that I think goes beyond mere refining. | |
| Feb 9, 2013 at 3:35 | history | answered | Chris Travers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |