How gasoline is made Videos

+TheMikeSwitch actually many societies have survived completely without taxes. Native American societies, early American societies, and so on. "Taxes" are the result of an imbalance of power between communities and authoritarian governments. There is no service that cannot be done more efficiently and better by private industry/enterprise. That includes security-related services.

+Samuel BrownHmmm. Ok. Not sure how you're supposed to have civilization without taxes. It's only how every country in the history of the world has operated.

+TheMikeSwitch What else would you call it? If I hire you, you and I sit down and agree upon a wage, how much you expect to be paid for how much labor. Correct? If you were to come to me and tell me that I needed to pay you x amount of money or you would imprison me or seize my property in exchange for a service I may or may not have asked for, then that would be extortion, i.e. theft.

+Samuel Brown  State sponsored theft? I assume you mean taxes lol

+Nicole K socialists are the scum of the earth. Proponents of state sponsored theft. Also, the mask worn by homicidal psychopath authoritarians in their rise to power.

+Samuel BrownHang on a sec ... you use the word "socialist" as it were a slur. What's wrong with being a socialist? There are a very great many of them in the world (of which the USA is only a small part). It seems to that being socialist beats being a dog in the manger.

+Dominic do I smell a socialist? Last time I checked corporations don't waste terrible sums of money because they have to answer to stockholders. I'm not a fan of oil companies but I'm pretty sure governments make more money off every gallon of gas than the oil companies without any investment or risk.

+JEAN LOCKWOOD BONNIE Because oil company CEO's need new private jets every year and gold toilet bowls and they just can't bare to eat common hamburgers, they need Swiss raised lamb burgers mixed with the tears of virgin german milkmaids. In short...because they are selfish pricks who take advantage of a captive consumer base.

+JEAN LOCKWOOD BONNIE and speculation in futures market.

+JEAN LOCKWOOD BONNIE include drilling price, shipping of crude, refining, shipping of final products and tax

+JEAN LOCKWOOD BONNIE Gasoline is incredibly cheap compared to most liquids we consume.

+JEAN LOCKWOOD BONNIE In the USA it's extremely cheap, but no-one, anywhere in the world pays anything like the true environmental cost of burning hydrocarbons.

In the U.S. at least gasoline is historically cheap right now. It's about $2.50 a gallon on average in the U.S. right now or about $0.66 a liter.

+JEAN LOCKWOOD BONNIE gasoline is cheaper than water.

+JEAN LOCKWOOD BONNIE If you knew how much work went into gasoline... the cost to build a fleet of Drilling rigs, a network of Pipelines and refineries, and deal with the everyday legal/environmental issues that govern the entire industry, you'd wonder why gasoline is so Cheap! Last time I looked I could buy a litre of gasoline for less than a litre of drinking water.

Demand. People will pay it because they need it.

a liter of oil, millions of years to form, minutes to burn. In a world so dependant on oil, we'll be in very deep shit the day we run out of it.

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oil smells like rotten eggs, oil smells like money money smells like rotten eggs?

Yup Black Gold :D But look how much he wasted taking that black stuff out!

I really wish we did not have to continue to depend upon fossil fuels.

Fuck all these gas station companies greedy mofos!! Theyll pay!

2:20 so, money smells like rotten eggs?

There has to be a better fuel.

I struck oil in my backyard!

You are actually right

so how is it made

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Since you're on the subject of supply and demand. Why is diesel the highest priced product at the pumps since historically it's cheaper to produce than gas? The increased cost of nearly everything on the shelves is a direct result of diesel via shipping. Plus I noted that as the cars gas thanks grew smaller the $20.00 fill up was being reduced to $12.00. It was then you guys began mind conditioning America by bumping up the prices and then lowering them to the next level. $6 diesel = $6 milk?

What really causes our prices to keep going up? All of the opec nations are in together and withholding production to keep prices up. Crooked futures traders are doing a pump and dump scheme making millions. First they lied and said we had an oil shortage then they say no shortage but not enough refinery capacity. Then they say colder winter caused heating oil shortage & raised prices. I wish they would tell me the truth that they raise prices because they want to and quit all the f???in lies.

free energy is over 100 years old with the work of tesla and others, the first internal combustion engine ran on hydrogen, the model t was flex fuel. Ethanol and other alcohol fuels were in use before prohibition but not after. I have tried to buy hydrogen storage via metal hydride storage which is safer than a tank of gasoline and I can produce it in my yard for free with no pollution. Gasoline exhaust contains benzene which is a proven carcenogen. Congrats on limiting the world for profit

Do you all feel that if take so many zeros that at least the America Companies would not be exploring away from fossil fuels . . . Come Chevron . . . Support The Lady Pink With Her Sea Legs ON . . . The Vessel has all the technology to stop the addiction to fossil fuel . . .you could have your fingers in clean energy : zero emissions zero reliance . . I have been on station at Chevron Richmond Calif., I know you like Co-gen technology . . YOU WILL LOVE .. . ZERO EMISSIONS ZERO RELIANCE . .

Is that right? So how did the threatening of a refinery in Texas (which obviously has nothing to so with the price of crude) skyrocket gas prices before Hurricane Katrina? When the price of crude remained stable, why did gas prices spike over Labor Day weekend? I guess our holidays and refinement facilities have a huge impact on the world oil market. Scam someone else because America isn't buying it. Speculation on energy commodities drives the price of crude, not the price at the source.

Cheers Chevron! Thanks for an informative video that helps to dispell some of the ani-energy, "big oil" propaganda that is being soaked up by the kool-aid drinkers. Anyone with half a brain cell can look up the oil price structure and see that the big profiteers are the government who take an average of 47 cents profit from every gallon without lifting a finger to do the work or take the risks associated with production and sale. Oil Co's and retailers make only a few cents per gallon.

I remember years ago when saddam defied opec and flooded the world with cheap oil and drove the prices down to 90 cents a gallon, because he was angry at saudi arabia and us for driving him out of kuwait and he intended to bankrupt the 2 countries. This is the reason bush sent our troops to overthrow him because saddam pissed off the big oil guys.Sadly thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed. If Saddam were still in power we would have 90 cent per gallon gasoline or cheaper.

Don't let oil companies trick you with BS like this film! There is enough crude oil to last one thousand years in Texas alone. In the Island of Cuba in province of Oriente (where Guitmo is for those non-Cubans) there is so much crude oil that it leaks out from underwater caves. You can actually see the oil bubble out. Please Chevron tell this story to a 2 year old maybe he/she may believe it you know this film is to prepare us to accept $10.00 a gallon gas prices in the near future!

Nice sponsored Video however if your really interested look at Chevron's Revenue increase over the last year. However much it is costing them to maintain these plants, they are still in the revenue streams of the billions of dollars. and there profit margins are still increasing and in some cases doubling from previous years. people around the world are paying 4-10 dollars a gallon and these companies are profiting billions of dollars from this 3-4 year price hike.

THEY DIDNT MENTION SPECULATION? which is investors place a bet(futures) in oil. in large amounts of money. speculation is a bet in futures of what they think will happen to prices. A speculator purchasing vast futures at higher than the current market price can cause oil producers to horde their commodity in the hopes they'll be able to sell it later on at the future price. (this is a big part of gas price increases) I did like the video. very optimistic view!

sooooo...i understand having to be profitable. i understand supply and demand. i understand capitalism. i am in business also. that being said, how come if i live close to the refinery, i still pay a higher price than someone a few hundred miles away or more? i'll tell you why, because you are greedy. you're record profits over the last few years show that. you're prices are not fair to the motoring public. you are taking advantage of the american citizens!!

This is a very well produced and informative presentation! The primary business of my company is alternative energy (greenEVsystems on Twitter and Facebook), yet I can appreciate how the straight forward and concise sound bites and visuals in this video really drive home the technological complexity and precious nature of the fossil fuel business. Though not depicted here, I am glad Chevron has also made investments in alternative energy solutions.

The number of misinformed people on this page is depressing. Electric cars need electricity which is generated by coal and natural gas. So fossil fuels power your planet saving electrical cars. Oil is used to create plastics which is used to manufacture keyboards so you can spew your ignorance on the Internet. The Internet is made possible because of oil. The machines that made your home, oil. The monitor you're reading this on, oil.

Sorry but the main reason the fuel prices went from the $140 a barrel to $33 a barrel was the fact that the sharp increse in fuel prices at that time sent the consumers into a conservation mode. People just weren't buying fuel at $4.00 a gallon. The fact of the matter is it's the consumer who controls the fuel prices. Or the price of any product for that matter. It's all about how much you are willing to pay for it.

This is all BULL !!! We are being suppressed by our governments to keep us as DEPENDENT as possible.... Face it, it affects there bottom line... Otherwise, the cost of solar panels and electric cars would be more affordable so the average American could have panels on there roof and an electric car in there garage... Think of the look on the Oil Guru's faces when the price of oil goes back down to $25 a barrel..

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+NOBOX7 The process is almost identical to the normal distillation and cracking of crude oil; it's just not as efficient in the return.

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+jeff davis Yes, you are quite right.When I saw the wood going into the hopper, and thought about how its energy content would eventually run an engine, I began comparing it with woodgas systems - without considering the differences.The coffee can and wood chips method that you described was my very first step in the woodgas game.When I saw the results, I was hooked!Now, I have a cute little gasifier that runs a 13HP engine. It delivers all of the power I need during the winter.It uses 1.7KG of wood to deliver 2HP of shaft power for one hour.What's cool is that the engine exhaust has virtually no smell to it, unlike when I run it on petrol.Naturally, after running this for a few hours, I can raid the fridge and grab a can of woodgas cooled beer :) .I would love to have a go at storing woodgas, or converting it into liquid fuel some time soon.

Wood gas or SynGas is NOT the same thing, wood gas is actually the smoke from a fire that has not been allowed to combust.Super easy to make all you need is a disposable metal container, like a used cookie tin with a lid or metal beer bottles (good reason to have a beer, too)  after you've consumed the contents, poke a hole in the lid with an ice pick or small knife, rinse and dry the inside and put some twigs, wood pieces or pieces of paper in the bottle and put it on your grill or in a fire, hot plate or stove if you want your house to smell like smoke, after smoke starts to come out of the hole light the smoke! It will burn pretty high, so be careful and don't knock it over, cause it will still burn. You can also put a bag over the top and trap the smoke and save it to burn latter! You can also make a type of diesel from plastic bottles and tires the same way!Wood alcohol or the stuff they make in the video is pretty much the same as rubbing alcohol and completely different from wood gas.