Another article: “After all of this, it takes as much as four tons of sand and four barrels of fresh water to make a barrel of synthetic oil, which is good for about 42 gallons of gas, or one fill up in a ’97 Suburban.”
:: a barrel of synthetic oil, which is good for about 42 gallons of gas ::
Note, this was a quote from an article written by a “journalist”.
Knowing that a “barrel” is 42 gallons and that gasoline is refined from the synthetic oil derived from TS...the conclusion that a barrel of oil begets a barrel of gasoline is not quite right.
It does take 4 tons of TScrude to refine a barrel of synthetic oil.
Refineries can, at top efficiency, extract 50% to gasoline.