I know that gasoline is approx 2/3 of the oil use. Heating oil, diesel and similar products make up some more. The rest is for everything else. I'm not sure if all of that is considered a byproduct. It's just another use of oil.
To me, a byproduct is what's left after making some other product. I don't know the breakdown, but I know at least some of the plastics and other products use oil itself, and not a byproduct.
I work on my own car and have a lot of fluids that I recycle. I know some of that is just filtered and used as lubricants. I think a lot of recycled filtered oil is used on farm equipment, which use all kinds of lubricants. There's a whole bunch of moving parts on farm equipment. Some recycled oil is re-refined, similar to how the crude oil was refined in the first place. The re-refined oil can be used for pretty much the same things as refined crude oil.
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That is why if we all went electric, we still are dependent oil companies in our everyday lives and a big thing that is not on the list is lubricants all of our electric machinery need lube to stay running and our tires there are so much to list don't have a week to list it
Oils come from vegetables, animals, or minerals. Some by-products can be peanut butter, cream, butterfat, lard, fish oils, codliver, olive oil, cottonseed, soybean, corn, coconut, and palm oils.
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Yeah, it's pretty common knowledge which products are made from polymers.
There are ways to make them without fossil fuels, but those ways are currently more expensive.I’ve spent 15 years in chemical plants. Profits notwithstanding, if oil dried up tomorrow, we’d be fine. We can affordably synthesize almost anything.
Screw oil. Its a dead-end technology that will not lead anywhere in the future.
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