ttystikk
Well-Known Member
Aaaaaaaand finally, the elephant in the room that but for its painted toenails, no one ever sees it;
You see, for every barrel that comes out of the ground and ultimately gets converted into gasoline, or home heating fuel, or jet fuel or diesel fuel OR FERTILISER FOR FARMING- the ultimate source of many nutrient salts are petrochemical byproducts- at least eight and often up to TWENTY barrels of oil were burned in the process, to power it and provide for distribution.
What you actually pump into your tank really is just skim off the top of the vast amount required to get it to the gas station and ready for use.
As oil gets harder to find and more difficult to extract, that ratio only gets higher... and if course they don't have emissions controls at the production end anywhere near what the end consumer has to tolerate!
You see, for every barrel that comes out of the ground and ultimately gets converted into gasoline, or home heating fuel, or jet fuel or diesel fuel OR FERTILISER FOR FARMING- the ultimate source of many nutrient salts are petrochemical byproducts- at least eight and often up to TWENTY barrels of oil were burned in the process, to power it and provide for distribution.
What you actually pump into your tank really is just skim off the top of the vast amount required to get it to the gas station and ready for use.
As oil gets harder to find and more difficult to extract, that ratio only gets higher... and if course they don't have emissions controls at the production end anywhere near what the end consumer has to tolerate!