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Default Oil chiefs say high prices not our fault

Kurt Ullman wrote in news:kurtullman-
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Jim Yanik wrote:



Then include more oil burned for electric power.....


How much oil is burned for power? Most of those plants are natural
gas, which isn't an oil product.


1.6% of all electric power,in 2006
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electri...a/epa_sum.html

I know it's a very small amount relative to the other fossil fuel power
sources,but it's still using petroleum.

(due to EPA regs,many oil-fired plants are converting to natural gas.)

here's the breakdown of fossil fuel use by type;
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electri...a/epat4p1.html

In addition,oil[diesel-electric trains] is also used to transport coal for
electric power generation...I don't know if that's included in the figures
for oil-fired generators. ;-)


I vote for more nuclear power plants,drilling in ANWR and the Gulf of
Mexico.

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