besides gasoline , what else is oil needed for?
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Plastic\nTires \nAshphalt\n\nEVERYTHING!
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Use practically any synthetic, as long as it meets or exceeds the requirements of the motorcycle manufacturer, honda or any other maker, do not make they're own oil, they have a private oil vendor to supply it, basically slapped with they're name on it and rack the price up.
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We find petroleum products in every area of our lives. They are easily recognized in the gasoline we use to fuel our cars and the heating oil we use to warm our homes. Less obvious are the uses of petroleum-based components of plastics, medicines, food items, and a host of other products.\n\nPetroleum products fall into three major categories: fuels such as motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil (diesel fuel); finished nonfuel products such as solvents and lubricating oils; and feedstocks for the petrochemical industry such as naphtha and various refinery gases. Demand is greatest for products in the fuels category, especially motor gasoline.
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Petroleum is a vital part of our modern society. It powers our cars and trucks, building machinery, factories that make our clothes and food, it helps us maintain our standard of living. It can be negative when wars are fought for control of this nescessity or when overusage contributes to global warming or other environmental hazzards
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44% to gasoline\n20% to fuel oil\n18% to petrochemicals\n10% to petroleum gas\n8% to jet fuel
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Oil followed by coal.
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Oil, natural gas, gold, diamonds and uranium.  Look it up for more details and learn something on your own.
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Propane can be used for lots of stuff including patio heaters, barbecues, deep fryers, lanterns, hot tubs, there are even some vehicles that run on propane, especially forklifts and some trucks.
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Other than motor cars, Food and other agricultural products.Don't forget wine.
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The gas shortage was because they had to completly empty out the underground storage tanks (USTs) to completly remove any water that might be in there before putting the 10% ethanol fuel in there! \nEthanol is a cleaner burning fuel and hopefully will be our new gasoline soon. Ethanol can run in all vehicles and once they figure out how to make ethanol more economically, then I believe it will be a main fuel for the U.S.A.
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Oil is portable, high in energy,and easy to control to make the right size fire.\n\nIf we didn't have petroleum, we'd probably be extracting it from plants and animals.\n\nThat's how whales got hunted practically to extinction in the nineteenth century.  Lamps using whale oil were being used all over the world.\n\nMaybe we'll learn to make hydrogen a good substitute.  It's simple to make if you have electricity, though not to store.
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It's not.\nIf you're thinking only of internal combustion engines, they can be built to run on a number of other fuels...\n\nKerosene/diesel, most of the alcohols, pretty much any volatile liquid or explosive gas -  hydrogen being a favourite...   (If I recall correctly, somebody once built an engine that ran on peanut oil...)\n\nIn practice, petrol/gasoline has been readily available for some time and, until recently, there was little incentive to develop efficient alternatives.  That may change.\n\nThen there's electrical propulsion, steam, direct-heat engines, and a bunch of other ideas waiting to be looked into
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for the most part no-the gasoline is regualted by the government
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oil not gasoline. according to this blogger, yes\n\nSen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is demanding that the Commerce Department release detailed reports on which companies are exporting U.S. oil, how much and where it went.\n\nLast year the nation exported 268 million barrels of oil. Shockingly, according to Dept. of Energy figures, that's about equal to the amount of oil we imported from Iraq in 2001, the year before our latest war with that country began. It's also about equal to the most optimistic guesses about production volume from ANWR, if drilling is allowed there.\n\nIn other words, if we simply held onto our own oil, the United States would have no oil interest in Iraq at all. And it would also negate any perceived need to disturb an irreplaceable wildlife refuge in the search for oil.\n\nBut the Commerce Department refused to provide the detail Wyden wants, saying it could only be released to a Congressional committee, not an individual representative. The agency also claims federal law forbids disclosure unless a finding is made that withholding the information contradicts national interests. That sounds like hogwash to me.\n\nWyden's request is of significant interest for two more reasons. First, it is likely that if oil drilling is approved in ANWR, much of that oil will be exported to Asia rather than sold in the U.S. Secondly, the more obvious reason is that every motorist and politician who can warm a chair is concerned about the nation's growing dependence on imported oil. It would seem to contradict our economic and political interests to worsen this imbalance by selling off our own supplies.\n\nIn a letter sent Monday to Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Wyden demanded release of the information, calling it "directly relevant to the coming Congressional debate on how to address our nation's dependence on imports of oil and other petroleum products."\n\nI'd call that an understatement. But Wyden faces an uphill battle to get a committee to demand the numbers. Though Wyden is a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, it and all other Congressional committees are controlled by Republicans. And as we've seen, Republicans these days aren't very interested in facts, especially if those facts contradict their agenda.
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I'd go with 40 to 1. The most convenient mix I can come up with is One Cup of Oil to 2 1/2 Gallons of Gasonline.\nThat's 3.2 Oz Oil to 1 Gallon of Gasoline.  \nHope this helps.
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Three words:\n\nNo More Oil.
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get rid of oil dependency