| The pipeline that wiill change the world? [message #156622] |
Thu, 26 May 2005 10:14   |
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DaveGMM
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Registered: February 2003
Location: England, UK
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| Sir Phoenixx |
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I'm NOT saying that we didn't eat before gasoline was discovered (not invented).
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Crude oil was discovered, gasoline was invented. (To make gasoline, we have to refine oil, and mix certain chemicals together, etc., so gasoline itself is an invention.)
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Gasoline is just... er... from about 4-10 carbons on a plain simple hydrocarbon, if I'm right.
I.E C4H10 to C10H22 (Or something like that).
At a push we invented the distillation process that makes all these things.
Seriously, that's all it is, just crude oil being fractionally distillated off into all the hydrocarbon chains that crude oil contains. We didn't invent gasoline, it was there in the first place.
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