[Manny]

Originally Posted by ZX-12R

When you think about what it takes to get a gallon of gasoline it is amazing how inexpensive it is. Drill for oil, pump it out, transport it across the ocean, distill it at a refinery, pump it through a pipeline to your region, mix with additives for various reasons which have their own infrastructure requirements, pump into tanker trucks for local distribution, and finally pump into service station tanks for general consumption.

The level of efficiency the oil companies run at is simply amazing.

yes and somehow they still earned 86 billion dollars last quarter!