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.
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.
At our age, yes. Still, I don’t think many people know this.
Obviously it’s dirty for humans and we don’t want to invest it, but it works with the earth. It’s organic. You can make a simple organic pesticide to be used with motor oil. Coal ash does wonders for green earth.
We can synthesize oil. Nothing changes, save the costs. Even though we can relatively easily synthesize anything, the way our economic system exploits supply and demand, if organic petroleum dries up, those that control the synthesis processes and the necessary raw materials will then control the supply. If we don’t reduce our dependence on oil, they’ll be able to command any price they want. That’s not terribly different from what we currently have, but reducing an entire competition factor usually isn’t good for consumers.
Oil is made naturally in the earth through bacteria. You can even take motor oil and use it as an organic pesticide for plants. Coal can be used as Carbon for your soil. Scientists can now make oil in mere minutes from algae. All those minerals and metals for batteries are finite.
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