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Originally Posted by Duffman
These numbers are available if you look for them. If I remember correctly, 80% of the energy in the well makes it to the fuel tank for gasoline and 84% for diesel. This was a few years ago so I could be remembering wrong or it may have changed. I have never found anything for coal but then again I haven't looked either.
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I remember reading that harvesting tar sands is much more expensive, energy-wise. Something like 90% of the extracted oil going back into the process. And that's
before refining it into fuels.
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