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Old 10-18-2020, 08:29 PM   #107 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
The United States burns about 20 million barrels of oil and that's only 1/3 of the total energy used.
Is that 20 million barrels used (burned?) per millisecond, century, millenium?

The following is a huge fire burning, every day! And that looks to be only gasoline. The daily diesel fire isn't quite as large.
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In 2019, about 142.71 billion gallons (or about 3.40 billion barrels1) of finished motor gasoline were consumed in the United States, an average of about 390.98 million gallons (or about 9.31 million barrels) per day. There are 42 U.S. gallons in a barrel. Sep 4, 2020
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