JeffN
Well-known member
Here is my rebuttal to Robert Llewellyn's Fully Charged "Volts for Oil" episode. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble posting it here as well (I get some SQL error msg) so I will break it down into multiple parts....
Robert,
I'm a Volt owner and am a likely customer for Tesla's future 3rd generation car. I've watched all the episodes of Fully Charged that I'm aware of and they are great. I'm eagerly looking forward to watching future segments.
But.... this recent episode titled "Volts for Oil" on the grid electricity use by refineries in the UK appears to be repeating misleading and inaccurate claims.
You state that the oil industry no longer releases data on this after 2005. Yet I found UK annual data up to 2010 after a few seconds of googling and more recent data is apparently available from the UN in an offline publication.
You also quote some unclear source as saying that it takes about "4.5 kWh of electricity" to refine every gallon of UK gasoline but you don't show the math.
Robert,
I'm a Volt owner and am a likely customer for Tesla's future 3rd generation car. I've watched all the episodes of Fully Charged that I'm aware of and they are great. I'm eagerly looking forward to watching future segments.
But.... this recent episode titled "Volts for Oil" on the grid electricity use by refineries in the UK appears to be repeating misleading and inaccurate claims.
You state that the oil industry no longer releases data on this after 2005. Yet I found UK annual data up to 2010 after a few seconds of googling and more recent data is apparently available from the UN in an offline publication.
You also quote some unclear source as saying that it takes about "4.5 kWh of electricity" to refine every gallon of UK gasoline but you don't show the math.