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Cicero posted:So let's say that 20 years from now, electric cars/trucks dominate the market and so demand for gasoline and diesel is way down. Can you increase the % of the barrel that you use for other products? Or is that relatively fixed due to chemical composition? You can absolutely produce different amounts of products from the same barrel of crude. In fact, this is already done every day at every refinery. If you were to do a straight run distillation of a barrel of crude, the products would not match up with their demand. That's why refineries are so drat big - there are a ton of different units that convert one class of hydrocarbons to another based on market conditions. Obviously at some point you will run up against some kind of physical or economic constraint but you can absolutely produce a lot less gasoline/diesel in order to produce a lot more kerosene (jet fuel), for instance.
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