Why do not people realize that oil, than gasoline, is needed to make 6000 or more …?

… Everyday products? This is just a general question to make people think! A 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. Here's just some of the things the oil is used: Solvents Diesel Motor Oil Bearing Grease Ink Floor Wax Ballpoint Pens Football Cleats Upholstery Sweaters Boats Insecticides Bicycle Tires Sports Car Bodies Nail Polish fishing lures tires dressed Golf Bags Perfumes Cassettes Dishwasher Shoe Tool Boxes Polish Motorcycle Helmet Caulking Petroleum Jelly Transparent Tape CD Player Faucet Washers Antiseptics Clothesline Curtains Food Preservatives Basketball Soap Vitamin Capsules Antihistamines Purses Shoes Dashboards Cortisone Deodorant Footballs Putty Dyes Panty Hose Refrigerant Percolators Life Jackets Rubbing Alcohol Linings Skis TV Cabinets Shag Rugs Electrician Tool Belt Racks Car Battery Cases epoxy repellent pants Mops oil filters insects Umbrellas Yarn Fertilizers Hair coloring Toilet Seats Fishing Rods ceiling lipstick

From crude oil to the problem Crude oil is that it contains hundreds of different types of hydrocarbon mixtures. You have to separate the different types of hydrocarbons that something useful. Fortunately there is an easy way separate things, and this is what oil refining is all about. The oil refining process starts with a fractional distillation column. Different hydrocarbon chain lengths have progressively higher boiling points, so that they can all be separated by distillation. This is what happens in a refinery oil – in a part of the process, crude oil is heated and the different strings are pulled by their vaporization temperatures. Each different chain length has a different characteristic that makes it useful in a different way. To understand the diversity of content in crude oil, and to understand why crude oil refining is so important in our society, look through the list of products that come from crude oil: * Petroleum gas – used for heating, cooking, manufacture of plastics or small alkanes (1 to 4 carbon atoms) or commonly known by the names methane, ethane, propane, butane or boiling = Less than 104 degrees Fahrenheit / 40 degrees Celsius or liquefied often under pressure to create LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) * Naphtha or ligroin – intermediate further processed for mixing gasoline and 5 to 9 carbon atom alkanes or boiling range = 140 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit / 60 to 100 degrees Celsius * Gasoline – motor fuel oo liquid mixture of alkanes and cycloalkanes (5 to 12 carbon atoms) or boiling range = 104 to 401 degrees Fahrenheit / 40 to 205 degrees centigrade * Kerosene – fuel for jet engines and tractors, material for the manufacture of other products or mixture or liquid alkanes (10 to 18 carbon atoms) and boiling aromatics or range = 350 to 617 degrees Fahrenheit / 175 to 325 degrees centigrade * oil or diesel distillate – Used for diesel fuel and heating oil, material for the manufacture of other products oo liquid alkanes with 12 or more carbon atoms or boiling range = 482 to 662 degrees Fahrenheit / 250 to 350 degrees centigrade * Lubricating oil – used motor oil, grease or other liquid lubricants or long chain (20 to 50 carbon atoms) alkanes, cycloalkanes, aromatic or boiling range = 572 to 700 degrees Fahrenheit / 300 to 370 degrees centigrade * oil gas or heavy fuel – used for industrial fuel, raw material for the manufacture of other products or brand, or liquid long (20 to 70 carbon atoms) alkanes, cycloalkanes, aromatic or boiling range = 700 to 1112 degrees Fahrenheit / 370 to 600 degrees centigrade * Waste – coke, asphalt, tar, waxes, raw material for the manufacture of other products or compounds or several rings with 70 or more carbon atoms or boiling over 1112 degrees = Fahrenheit / 600 degrees Celsius You may have noticed that all these products have different sizes and boiling ranges. Chemists take advantage of these properties when oil refined. See the next section for details of this fascinating process. ============== Burning crude oil itself is of limited use. To extract the maximum value of crude oil in the first place has to be refined into petroleum products. The best known of these is gasoline, or petrol. However, there are many other products that can be obtained when a barrel of crude oil is refined. These include liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), naphtha, kerosene, diesel and fuel oil. Other useful items not the fuels can also be manufactured by refining crude oil, such as lubricants and asphalt (used in paving roads). A series of subtopics like perfumes and insecticides are also ultimately derived from crude oil. Moreover, several of the above products derived from oil, such as naphtha, diesel, LPG and ethane, can be used as inputs or raw materials in the production of petrochemicals. There are over 4,000 different petrochemical products, but those who are regarded as commodities include ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, ammonia and methanol. The main groups of petrochemical end products plastics, synthetic fibers, synthetic rubbers, detergents and chemical fertilizers. Given the large number of products derived from it, the crude Oil is a very versatile substance. Life as we know it today would be very difficult without crude oil and its derivatives.