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It's a very tiny percentage of oil that gets used in this way.
by eloff 5y ago
It's a very tiny percentage of oil that gets used in this way.
- skeeter2020 5y agoabout 3/4 is used as fuel (gas/diesel/jet) with the rest building your roads and the plastic life we all enjoy.
- eloff 5y agoThis source puts it at 86% as fuel: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc... Not sure why the discrepancy.
- dredmorbius 5y agoRoughly 15% of petroleum goes into chemical feedstocks. Not all of that is plastics. I suspect natural-gas-fired ammonia synthesis (Haber-Bosch process) is a major fraction. But it's not a tiny percentage.