• Ellia Plissken@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    correct me if I’m wrong, but the United States doesn’t even have oil refineries that are capable of making gasoline out of American oil? like we need the type of oil that the middle East has, so we’re constantly trading oil back and forth even though we have plenty of it

    I think I’ve heard this is true. something about politicians wanting to look environmentalist and therefore preventing the building of any more refineries

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      1 hour ago

      Only butt-munchers will reply to this comment about something vague regarding US gasoline production

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        10 hours ago

        yes but how much of that gasoline was made from American crude oil? America has plenty of refineries, just none of them designed for American oil

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          59 minutes ago

          Crude oil us primarily classified based on density and sulphur content. It’s all hydrocarbons and a portion of all of it can be turned into gasoline.

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            8 hours ago

            dude. we are not talking about the gasoline. we are talking about the oil being used to make the gasoline. what percentage of the crude oil being refined into American gasoline is American produced crude oil?