if oil refining is just basic fractional distillation what actually stops you from buying crude directly, distilling it at home, selling off all the byproducts, and keeping the gasoline for home use? even if you don't minmax the yields, if you can at the very least achieve brekaeven price for the barrel this would be a massive win.
>>62175694I imagine it’s environmental regulations and that oil isn’t sold by the barrel, the minimal lot could be 10000 barrels and you have to bring your own safety certified and insured oil trucks.Government essentially bans the kind of activity you want to do
>>62175694Gasoline at the gas station isn't very far from market price. Market price revolves around 3.7 USD/gallon and you probably find it for about 4. 5 USD.
>>62175694>if oil refining is just basic fractional distillation what actually stops you from buying crude directly,Each reservoir has its own mix, properties, characteristics of crude and gas. Some wells produce a "crude" that can be run straight older ICE. More modern engines require a better quality of fuel for smoother running and loner engine life. Some military truck engines run on just about anything. The best thing to do is convert your engine to run on alcohol and make your own home still. An appellate court just ruled its unconstiutional for the feds to require a permit for home alcohol stills. Also there are to kinds of alcohol one is poisonous the other not, both are produced in the still you never drink that shit. Even better is you just get home solar panels (not on your roof, on a shed out back, and use them to charge you car and mountain bike or e-dirt bike, these things are wicked fast and light now. In Syria when the US was liberating the Syrian oil fields the locals had to set up very crude refinery operations to make diesel from the crude and wasted all the light ends. The crap would fill their distialation units and they send in kids to clean out the toxins. I am sure they are fine thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsB9OTkepe8actual refineries use crackers to keep breaking down as much as possible for valuable product.
>>62175694In Nigeria, some smart niggers do their own refining, but the military blows the refineries up and kills them. No wonder that africa is dumb if they kill the smart people with inventor spirit.Also just asked AI about how much a barrel gives you.About 70liters Gasoline and the 40 liters diesel. Plus jet fuel, and some other stuff.
>>62176751>and some other stuff.Ask AI what you are going to do with the waste, you got your RCRA permit right anon?
>>62175694Nobody is going to sell you an actual barrel of crude oil and the equipment to refine it even at a basic level is going to be many thousands of dollars even without accounting for all the time you put in and waste you will never come even close to break even.
>>62175694fractions arent homogenous
>>62175694basic distilling your own coca cola would be more profitable for an individual
>>62175694Economy of scale.A large refinery is more cost effective than a thousand small DIY reffineries.
>>62175694>just basic fractional distillationfractional distillation is just one step in the process. also consider that fractional distillation doesn't scale down very well. it still works, but the separation between fractions gets shittier as you reduce the size of the apparatus (number of plates.)
>>62175694Because its a fucking mafia, thats why the EU uses price caps because the alternative would be free competition.
>>62175694>if oil refining is just basic fractional distillation>if neurosurgery is just basic slash-and-chop>if nuclear power generation is just hot metal in water
>>62176751>implying the niggers don't blow themselves up
>>62176091>An appellate court just ruled its unconstiutional for the feds to require a permit for home alcohol stills.The court also said its ruling only applies to members of the distilling club that filed the lawsuit, and only to those who were members at the time the lawsuit was filed.
>>62175694Because it is very toxic and carcinogenic and there are lots of regulations about it.
>>62175694You don't own the means of production.
>>62175694Have you ever distilled anything? Asking legitimately.Even simple solvents turn into bombs if you're a careless retard about it. Crude oil is a complex mixture and what other equipment do you have to certify those fractions to potential buyers? Big time refineries are running near margins most of the time because capital E energy is the most valuable resource in the world and worldwide trade is realtime cutthroat pvp. If you're doing a sloppy mossad job, nobody will be buying and you're stuck with a really, really dirty still and lots of (inefficiently produced) product that won't move>t. chemist
>>62177111bummer, but many others should file also in the same district then try to get covered ASAP.
