it cost roughtly .24 to refine 1 gallon of gas. this does not include the cost of the oil, or distribution.
“A barrel contains 42 gallons. After refining, it makes about 19.5 gallons
of gasoline in addition to numerous other products such as heating oil”
but we are only looking at gasoline for this discussion.
the cost is about 68 per barrel today. that gives us 19.5 gallons (lets say 20 to make it easier) so thats 20 * .24 = $4.80 to refine 1 barrel of oil to 20 gallons of gasoline.
then you need to add the cost of the barrel. here is a snip “Texas or Arabian crude yields about 30% gasoline” so we will add 30% of the barrel cost to the cost of gas (i assume the other crap is used for heating oil and what not). thats $25.20 to make 20 gallons of gas, or 1.52. now add in all the taxes, distribution costs, and a little profit, and you pretty much get our current gas prices.
based on mike’s post, it will cost 1 dollar to make 1 gallon of gas from coal. is this with todays price for coal, or the price from 1923, or is that just the cost to refine it?
btw, all my numbers came from sites ending in .gov except for the current price ber barrel.
EDIT: we were typing at the same time.
so thats 32 to produce a barrel of oil, then there is the mark up, the company doing this needs to make a buck… and what happens after 40 year? granted it will last much longer since we wont be using only coal fuel, but still; thats not a large supply.