I will say, I'm a little scared at how the debate will end up. There's a strong part of me that feels it's going to look like a long SNL sketch...
But let's hope that they do. Unfortunately they're backers are too dumb to understand it regardless.There's also about a 20% energy loss in the refining process fwiw, as in for 100 units of gasoline it takes 20 units of input power to refine it from it's base hydrocarbon.
Efficiency is not an argument that oil/gasoline supporters should let themselves get pulled into.