So let’s say they find a 55-gallon barrel drum or a big tote with a modest handful of supplies. This small sacrificial stash makes it look like you’re already running desperately low. An inventory sheet with most everything checked off, and a bunch of empty cans and pouches in a nea...
The Energy Department’s EIA measures consumption of gasoline in terms of barrels supplied to the market by refiners, blenders, etc., and not by retail sales at gas stations. The volume of gasoline supplied has fallen for the third week in a row. This is unu...
4. Car wash: Many local car wash places get their soaps in 55 gallon barrels and they will sometimes give them away. I have found this approach to be more work than its worth because you will have to rinse the barrels many times to get the soap out, which can defeat the purpose of ...
imports sank and exports surged. By 2020, the US became a “net exporter” of crude oil and petroleum products (in the chart, the green line above the purple line), meaning in terms of barrels per day the US exported more than it imported....
stats, in 2018 the United States alone used an average of about 391.40 million gallons of refined gasoline (or 9.32 million barrels) per day (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=23&t=10) According to Wikipedia, 33.7 kilowatt hours of electricity is equivalent to one gallo...