• 21Cabbage
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    5 days ago

    Right, IIRC correctly the US mostly produces the heavy stuff and mostly consumes the light stuff.

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      5 days ago

      You’ve got that backwards. US consumes the heavy stuff because it is cheap and they have the ability to refine it. They sell the light stuff to places that do not have the refining capacity to refine the heavy stuff.

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        5 days ago

        For the crude certainly but I was thinking about end products, being as our cars are mostly gassers and our home heating is pretty much entirely methane, electric of course being the exception but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an oil burner outside of the context of kitchens and mechanic’s shops.