Category Archives: Oil & Crude

What’s the trouble with oil? (5/5)

By AKB | Published: June 16, 2009

In this final post on crude oil I’ll discuss why there’s so much controversy over oil. In short, using fossil fuels like crude has negative effects on the environment, economy, and therefore everyone.
The organic material that is found in crude oil sometimes contain sulfur atoms which if combusted turns into SO2 and then into H2SO4, [...]

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How much oil do we use? (4/5)

By AKB | Published: June 5, 2009

Now that we’ve covered where oil comes from, what oil is chemically, and how we refine crude, it’s time to get to the heart of the oil hype – consumption.
The cool flow diagram below shows where the USA gets oil from and where we use it.

From this diagram we can learn quite a bit about [...]

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