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1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles (cleantechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

31.5 gallons in a barrel so your math shows 15Mbbl saved

Article says 1.8Mbbl

I'm missing the discrepancy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

The article says 1.8 per day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Weird. I wonder why it's a non-standard barrel. 50 gallon drums are the ones that I've seen the most.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

While 55 gal drums are the standard physical barrel, barrels as used for oil are their own unit, and oil is rarely in actual physical barrels anymore anyways. It's weird, but it's how the oil industry measures it.