Kairos@lemmy.today to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 days agoPotential solution?imagemessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up1355arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareEvil_ShrubberylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·2 days ago Bro thinks they can just Mad Max a couple million barrels of crude realisations through the deserts of enlightenment evey day
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI mean they could A barrel is 42 gallons. A 4 trailer road train can carry up to 32,000 gallons. Oil tanker can be 70,000 barrels plus. Which is let’s say 3 million gallons. So it would take a single road train about 94 trips or 94 road trains 1 trip. So they just need a road that may or may not exist and a couple thousand trucks and about 4 times as many trailers.
minus-squarezemo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day ago Oil tanker can be 70,000 barrels plus. The “plus” is doing a lot of work here. Oil tankers can be up to several million barrels.
minus-squareEvil_ShrubberylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoCrude oil tankers are much larger than that & trucks don’t run on crude oil.
minus-squaretempest@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoYeah, I picked scratch numbers from Wikipedia and picked low numbers to make the point. The bigger ones are 10 times the size so you can just add a zero.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoYes I’m sure there’s a train line from point A to B, the employees for it, and nearby crude oil refineries to fuel the train.
I mean they could
A barrel is 42 gallons.
A 4 trailer road train can carry up to 32,000 gallons.
Oil tanker can be 70,000 barrels plus.
Which is let’s say 3 million gallons.
So it would take a single road train about 94 trips or 94 road trains 1 trip.
So they just need a road that may or may not exist and a couple thousand trucks and about 4 times as many trailers.
The “plus” is doing a lot of work here. Oil tankers can be up to several million barrels.
Crude oil tankers are much larger than that & trucks don’t run on crude oil.
Yeah, I picked scratch numbers from Wikipedia and picked low numbers to make the point. The bigger ones are 10 times the size so you can just add a zero.
Yes I’m sure there’s a train line from point A to B, the employees for it, and nearby crude oil refineries to fuel the train.