Ahh The oil crisis. I like these, I'm more worried about pollution/smog than shortage.
Actually what they say in the "small" print is close to being true.
Fact; there is a finite amount of dino-fuel, how much ? wellll that's up for debate.
US shuts its pumps down, so the oil is sitting there waiting for our turn to light up the pumps after everyone else is empty >>> could be.
Plus there's the gobberment reserves "which" we never really know how much there is.
When things look the bleakest they say they're going to open the reserves, then the spot prices start going down 'cause the doom-n-gloom is over...Sure...
Here's a cute little more oil to add.... after a little "test" I'm doing.
Coffee oil, yup that same stuff floating on top of your Starbucks late'.
US imports or uses about 16B(illion) lbs of coffee yearly. Now of those 16B lbs, there's those grounds. Nice stuff, worms don't really like it..but put up with it for the liquid.
Anyway here we have of the 16B lbs, ~14B spent coffee grounds, of that about is 12 - 15% oil by weight. So we have roughly 2B lbs of oil which since the oil is lighter than water and water weighs about 8lbs/gal; so lets go with easy math and say 5lbs/gal so we now have 400M gals of coffee oil this then can be directly used in DanB's listeroid or can be changed to Bio-D, but changing to Bio-D can be costly since the coffee grounds (of which has high-sulfur content and FFAs) has be to doubly checked.
So the price would be roughly double of making Bio-D for me... that takes it up over $1.82USD/per gallon oil of rough oil, this is including the spent energy to buy, stir and check the finished oil.
Crude oil is what coming in at $71.00USD/per barrel? A barrel holds about 55gals of unprocessed crude?
My math tells me the coffee oil is cheaper even not counting the wonderful cup of plain black goodness sitting right here with me .
NOW: to be honest; I've only done about 18lbs of coffee grounds so far, but it works just fine, actually easier to process since I don't have the crap-ola to deal with from WVO, just nice dry grounds to use in soil to help keep it loosened up.
Further more coffee is and can be considered a "GREEN/ Fair Trade/ Organic" substance, since it grows and absorbs CO2
My process only get me about 5% of the oil, which makes it even higher in cost, but if the US brings in 400M gals/per year that what 8K gals of Bio-D and I know I'm not best at doing this.
Shortage? maybe.... but not an energy shortage, just different processes needed.
AND Ahhh the aroma...
JMO Cheers;
Bruce S