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There's a fundamental error in this article. Gasoline != Oil. Beware shady accounting. So Norway reduced gasoline demand. Cool. It also increased diesel demand
by perrygeo 3y ago
There's a fundamental error in this article. Gasoline != Oil. Beware shady accounting.
So Norway reduced gasoline demand. Cool. It also increased diesel demand by roughly the same amount over the chart's timeframe. Oh and those EV tires, plastic parts, and the roads they drive on require oil products, driving up oil demand further.
A barrel of oil can be processed into roughly 45% gasoline, 25% diesel, 10% jet fuel, and 20% misc (when you process a barrel of oil, you don't really get to choose). If you only need the diesel, jet fuel, plastic stock, and tar - what are you going to do with the gasoline? Toss it in a hole in the ground? The gasoline will still need to be refined off (and likely burned elsewhere) to get at the other petrol products that Norway demands.
But if you cook the books right, you can make it look like someone else is burning the gasoline so it's __their__ problem, not yours.
An honest framing of the problem, and honest accounting, would show that Norway's EV play has done very little to decrease its reliance on oil. It's only gasoline demand that's declining. If you can't make that basic distinction, you shouldn't be writing articles about it.