Damn you Jay Tea. You Republicans think you are better than everyone else just because you know how to "multiply" and you are so evil as to reject the premise that teachers should build the self-esteem of children by telling them good job when they cannot figure out that 8,000x3x5=120,000. I think he did just fine. {pat on the head} I think his answer is just as good as yours and that he is a great person. Just because you are technically "right" does not mean that he also is not right even though his answer is not the same as yours and does not match this thing called "reality". How dare you try to injure his self esteem.

Look's like his site as crashed. Is this the first Wizalanche?

Gotta love it when JT caves like a wet deck of cards :)

Lurker-

No-- And it's called a Wizbanging.

Paul, I thought it was called a Bushbanging ;)

Jdging from the left's reaction to the election multiplying isn't the only thing hard for them to do, counting seems to present them problems also.

Fine, I made an error of overlooking a statement. The original article is still inaccurate because oil makes up for only 25% of gasoline. I can multiply just fine, Jay.

What I don't get is why do you think I am a left wing blogger ? Just about anything I said here on Wizbang and on my own site would indicate that I am pro-choice, pro-liberty, pro-rugged-individualism, and anti-government.

Here http://www.olegdulin.com/index.php/archives/category/politics/civil-liberties Or read my Social Security posts (http://www.olegdulin.com/index.php/archives/category/politics/social-security/)

If by liberal you mean classical liberal (libertarian), then I am guilty as charged. But I am not by any means a communist.

- Well I'm certainly glad thats cleared up. Communists are issue challenged enough without having to deal with poor math skills.....

"because oil makes up for only 25% of gasoline."

First, thats backwards, second, they chemically crack the denser components to get more napha.

so they get far more than gas for unit of oil than simple seperation will give you.

And there is even more complexity, anybodies cheapo plant can handle light sweet crude, but the plant that can handle the sour stuff like you get From Hugo Chaves, soon to be communist gulag land, requires special alloys like hasteloy or the stuff will eat thru the metal in the plant. making it more expensive.

One of the problems is called hydrogen embrittlement, that makes steel as brittle as glass. it will litterally shatter.

Leave a embrittled tool in the open air, and when the hydrogen leaches out it will start to rust again, and the metal will regain its stength.

Brittle metal is not desirable in a hi pressure cracking plant, not to mention the chemical etching, hence the need for the expensive alloys.

Did you call him an embrittled tool ? Oh, your nasty! ;)

I have worked in the oil exploration industry for many years. A little facts behind the hype:
The world produces on average of 73-75 million barrels of oil a day. It uses between 70 & 77 million barrels a day. The fluctuation is higher on the weekends and lower on Mon - Wed.
World Oil Reserves stand at about 1 trillion barrels of oil.

By 2020 Iran and Venezuela will be dry. Mexico and Nigeria are next @ 2035. Russia and the US (at our current pumping volume) will be dry in 2045. Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will be dry in 2085.

Most of the reserves found today are below 8 kilometers down. Texaco and Exxon are experimenting with really deep drilling (12-22 kilometer). However now it is not ecconomical to drill that deep.

It is predicted that gasoline will rise $1 every 5 years.