Dave Smirkenberg wrote:
On Mar 23, 5:51 pm, wrote:
You are paying $3.00 per gallon of gasoline now? It will get up about
$3.50, probally more, where you live, just you watch and see.About two -
three months ago it was $2.37 per gallon here.Wayyyy back before the
days of the automobile, gasoline was a waste product, the refineries
used to throw it away.Nobody had a need for it.People were using
kerosene for their kerosene lanterns wayyyy back then.At least one of
the refineries has already shut down part of their production of
gasoline, the better to SCREW the public with.I posted an article about
that in the rec.autos.tech newsgroup, if you want to dig around over
there and read it? Tell the backwater hick sent you.http://www.jacksongasprices.com
cuhulin

No they didnt throw gasoline out. Gasoline has to be refined. It aint
a naturally happening substance.

Gasoline is a volatile, flammable liquid obtained from the refinement
of petroleum, or crude oil. It was originally discarded as a byproduct
of kerosene production, but its ability to vaporize at low temperatures
made it a useful fuel for many machines. The first oil well in the
United States was struck by Edwin L. Drake near Titusville,
Pennsylvania, in 1859 at a depth of almost 70 feet (21 m). With the
development of the four-stroke internal combustion engine by Nikolaus
Otto in 1876, gasoline became essential to the automotive industry.
Today, almost all gasoline is used to fuel automobiles, with a very
small percentage used to power agricultural equipment and aircraft.

Petroleum, a fossil fuel, supplies more energy to the world today than
any other source. The United States is the world's leading consumer of
petroleum; in 1994, Americans used 7,587,000 barrels of oil per day.
Petroleum is formed from the remains of plants and animals that have
been held under tremendous pressure for millions of years. Ordinarily,
this organic matter would decompose completely with the help of
scavengers and aerobic bacteria, but petroleum is created in an
anaerobic environment, without the presence of oxygen. Over half of the
world's known crude oil is concentrated in the Persian Gulf basin. Other
major areas include the coasts of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.

Read mo How gasoline is made - manufacture, making, used, parts,
industry, Raw Materials, The Manufacturing Process of gasoline,
Byproducts/Waste, The Future
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Gaso...#ixzz0jQ5vWn3o