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Treatments  Postby ghr1127 on Wed Nov 16, 2011 6:59 pm  A not
widely known is the fact that of every barrel of crude oil that
is refined, some 83% of that barrel becomes a motor fuel such as
gasoline, diesel, aviation/jet, etc. From that same barrel of
crude comes only 1.6% in the form of lubricants with the
remaining 15% or so yielding a variety of products from
petrochemical feed stocks to tar and asphalt [source: American
Petroleum Institute (API)]. In view of this fact, it is simple
to see that the 83% fuel yield is the largest source of income
to the oil refiner and as such, is the ‘‘life blood’’ of his
profits. Keep this foregoing fact in mind as we proceed. The
1.6% of the yield going to lubricants is in reality a byproduct
of the refining process and contributes very little to the
refiner’s profits. It must now be