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Oil? Sure, but you can't burn raw oil for anything more interesting than pure heating. Refined gasoline, diesel or even propane? That stuff degrades. After a f
by Filligree 1y ago
Oil? Sure, but you can't burn raw oil for anything more interesting than pure heating.
Refined gasoline, diesel or even propane? That stuff degrades. After a few years it's useless.
- shoxidizer 1y agoRefining gasoline isn't special. The Syrian civil war caused the construction of thousands of makeshift oil refineries. It's basically just distillation. You won't have an easier time making batteries and semiconductors from scrap metal. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04/24/dying-to-keep-warm-oil-trade-and-makeshift-refining-in-north-west-syria/ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04/24/dying-to-keep-war...