Biden Administration Raised Amount of Ethanol Required in Gasoline from 10% to 15%, Three Predictable Problems Will Surface Soon - The Last Refuge

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[–]sampleusername 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's not you that says that heavy crude needs to be shipped in, it's the refineries and the oil companies that are saying it. The U.S. is not equipped to refine all of the light crude that comes from the Permian basin, so it gets sent overseas in exchange for heavy crude that can be used. This is common knowledge in the oil world, yet you act as if you know better?

It's completely irrelevant to this discussion that you have experience in oil fields. Crude oil doesn't go in your gas tank, you need refineries to turn it into gasoline and diesel. And with global supply chain disruptions it's more difficult to source the heavy crude that refineries need, and the price at the pump goes up. Why is this so hard to grasp?

[–]Dunwidit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cuz I worked in North Dakota... And well I don't work at a refinery my understanding is that sweet crude from there was very easy to refine. Not sure where you're getting your information. And I can concede that I may be undereducated in this regard. But 10 years working oil fields in North Dakota I never once heard that there was any issue refining that oil... In fact it's the oil that everybody wanted. Couldn't get it out of the ground fast enough.

[–]Dunwidit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So based on what you said I went and looked it up. Sweet crude or light crude is easier to refine cause less damage to refineries etc etc so you're completely wrong. We absolutely should not be bringing heavy crude in from elsewhere... Not just for economic reasons but apparently it's the less desirable of The crude oil... Your assertion is actually 100% backwards.