which fuel is the nations' most used fuel spurce?
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Oil followed by coal.
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Probably the dodge hemi..I think the truck doubles the top fuels weight. The dragster would probably just smoke the tires. If it was a diesel than for sure the dodge.
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right here:\n\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/rocket-fuel-1
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Diesel or Diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of fuel oil (mostly petroleum) that is used as fuel in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. The term typically refers to fuel that has been processed from petroleum, but increasingly, alternatives such as biodiesel or biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel that are not derived from petroleum are being developed.\nDiesel is produced from petroleum, and is sometimes called petrodiesel (or, less seriously, dinodiesel) when there is a need to distinguish it from diesel obtained from other sources. As a hydrocarbon mixture, it is obtained in the fractional distillation of crude oil between 250 °C and 350 °C at atmospheric pressure. Petro Diesel is considered to be a fuel oil and is about 18% denser than gasoline.\n\nThe density of diesel is about 850 grams per liter whereas gasoline has a density of about 720 g/l, or about 15% less. When burnt diesel typically releases about 40.9 megajoules (MJ) per liter, whereas gasoline releases 34.8 MJ/l also about 15% less. Diesel is generally simpler to refine than gasoline and often costs less (although price fluctuations often mean that the inverse is true; for example, the cost of diesel traditionally rises during colder months as demand for heating oil, which is refined much the same way, rises).\n\nDiesel fuel, however, often contains higher quantities of sulfur. In Europe, emission standards and preferential taxation have both forced oil refineries to dramatically reduce the level of sulfur in diesel fuels. In contrast, the United States has long had "dirtier" diesel, although more stringent emission standards have been adopted with the transition to ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) occurring in 2006 (see also diesel exhaust). U.S. diesel fuel typically also has a lower cetane number (a measure of ignition quality) than European diesel, resulting in worse cold weather performance and some increase in emissions. High levels of sulfur in diesel are harmful for the environment. It prevents the use of catalytic diesel particulate filters to control diesel particulate emissions, as well as more advanced technologies, such as nitrogen oxide (NOx) adsorbers (still under development), to reduce emissions. However, lowering sulfur also reduces the lubricity of the fuel, meaning that additives must be put into the fuel to help lubricate engines. Biodiesel is an effective lubricant. Diesel contains approximately 18% more energy per unit of volume than gasoline, which, along with the greater efficiency of diesel engines, contributes to fuel economy (distance traveled per volume of fuel consumed).\n\nThere has been a lot of discussion and misinformation about algae in diesel fuel. Algae is a plant, and it requires sunlight to live and grow. As there is no sunlight in a closed fuel tank, no algae can survive there. However, some microbes can survive there. They can feed on the diesel fuel.\n\nThese microbes form a slimy colony that lives at the fuel/water interface. They grow quite rapidly in warmer temperatures. They can even grow in cold weather when fuel tank heaters are installed. Parts of the colony can break off and clog the fuel lines and fuel filters.\n\nIt is possible to either kill this growth with a biocide treatment, or eliminate the water, a necessary component of microbial life. There are a number of biocides on the market, which must be handled very carefully. If a biocide is used, it must be added every time a tank is refilled until the problem is fully resolved.\n\nBiocides attack the cell wall of microbes resulting in Lysis, the death of a cell by bursting. The risk of filter clogging may continue for a short period after biocide treatment until cellular residues break down and are absorbed into the fuel.\n\nDiesel fuel is very similar to heating oil which is used in central heating. In Europe, the United States and Canada, taxes on diesel fuel are higher than on heating oil due
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Fossil energy is provided by things like coal, natural gas and oil. It is not easy to tell which was used first as a fuel, oil or coal. There have been natural seeps of oil around for a long time that could have been burned in lamps. Oil was certainly well known in the ancient world. For example, pitch was used by the ancient Egyptians to seal the pyramids and to coat their mummies. Boats along the Euphrates in some of the earliest human recorded settlements were sealed with pitch.\n\nOil had become so important as a fuel source in China as much as 1700 years ago that it oil wells were being dug to extract it. We have evidence of oil wells up to 800 feet deep were being drilled in China in 347 CE. \n\nAnother contender for oldest fossil fuel usage is coal. It was used as ornamentation in both China and the Roman empire, but was probably first used as fuel in Britain during the Roman period. Peat, a form of coal, was not used as fuel apparently until much later when wood supplies had been exhausted in Europe.
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Hydrogen. You can create it from water using only electricity so it's the cheapest fuel ever. When you explode it (during combustion), it mixes with oxygen to create...you guessed it...water (no polution).\n\nSo:\n1.Free\n2.No polutants\n\nHmmm...
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Naptha (common usage), gasoline, and diesel fuel are both hydrocarbon chains. Naptha has relatively short chains, probably 6 to 7 carbons long. Gasoline is a little longer, in the 8 carbon region. Diesel fuel, yet again longer. I don't know the average carbon length for Diesel, but I'd guess around 10. The longer the chain, the higher the boiling temp, the higher the flash point, the harder it is to ignite, and the higher the viscosity.\n\nNaptha, as a term used in the US (common usage) typically means the same thing as what was most commonly used as lighter fluid in hand held lighters. In some Euporean countries, it's means an easily flammable, volitile petroleum product, of which, gasoline is one.
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Lifestyles in the industrialized world revolve around fossil fuels--including oil, coal, and natural gas. For oil alone, according to U.S. government figures, the world consumes over 80 million barrels per day, with the U.S. accounting for roughly a quarter of that total. \nhttp://us.oneworld.net/article/view/115387/1/795
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Been out of the industry for a little while now so cant give you precise figures, but what I can tell you is that North Sea crude is pretty much specialised and is virtually all exported.\n\nThe UK exchequer sells our crude for more than we pay to import generally.\n\nIt is not the type of crude which lends itself to petrol production either.\n\nIt was also pretty badly drilled at the time which means that whilst there is actually quite a lot left, most of it will be to difficult and expensive to be extracted, so the supply is diminishing quickly.
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USA is having hte maximum access to the energy. Next one is CHINA
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Japan.\n\nNah..just kidding.  The US, we export it...lol.
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It's not.\nIf you're thinking only of internal combustion engines, they can be built to run on a number of other fuels...\n\nKerosene/diesel, most of the alcohols, pretty much any volatile liquid or explosive gas -  hydrogen being a favourite...   (If I recall correctly, somebody once built an engine that ran on peanut oil...)\n\nIn practice, petrol/gasoline has been readily available for some time and, until recently, there was little incentive to develop efficient alternatives.  That may change.\n\nThen there's electrical propulsion, steam, direct-heat engines, and a bunch of other ideas waiting to be looked into
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I think it's because if you look at the size of the United States compared to European countries, it is just larger.  \n\nAlso, people in the United States travel farther to go to work then people on other countries do.    \n\nAdd SUV's and other gas guzzling cars into the mix and you've got high oil consumption.\n\nThe solution for the United States is to use something completely different then oil to fuel our cars.
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Hydrogen production has been common since the late 1800's. A process known as the water gas reaction was once used in the United States and Europe to make a gas composed of hydrogen and carbon monoxide that was burnt in street lamps. It was used as heating gas and for cooking gas up until around the 1950's in the United States. \n\nThis process is still the primary method of production for industrial hydrogen. It is made using coal or coke which is treated with steam.  Many industrial operations have substituted natural gas (methane) for the coal or coke. At present electricity is not commercially used to produce hydrogen, although this is possible. \n\nAll developed and probably many undeveloped countries use hydrogen gas for industrial applications, including metallurgy, glass manufacturing, food and beverages (hydrogenated vegetable oils), electronics, rocket fuel, and as a coolant in power plants.  One important and widespread use of hyrdogen gas is in refineries that produce petrochemicals and to remove sulphur from crude oil that will be refined into gasoline and diesel. \n\nIts use as a fuel is often touted and does have some potential advantages because burning hydrogen does not produce any undesirable combustion products (just water). However, hydrogen is NOT a source of energy, because it has to be produced from other compounds such as water, natural gas, or coal. It is also difficult to compress enough to carry a similar energy potential to the same volume of gasoline. Its primary advantage, if used for transportation fuel, is that it will not pollute the air with anything other than water vapor.\n\nCurrently there are about 75 operating hydrogen refueling stations in the world, located in the US, Canada, Spain, UK, India, Australia, Japan, Korea, and quite a few other countries. There are about 150 more in the planning stages worldwide. You can see this on a map here:\nhttp://www.h2cars.de/overview/index.html\n\nOne of the big proponents of hydrogen fuel usage has been Shell Oil Company. You can find lots of information on the Shell Hyrdrogen webpage:\nhttp://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=hydrogen-en&FC2=/hydrogen-en/html/iwgen/leftnavs/zzz_lhn2_0_0.html&FC3=/hydrogen-en/html/iwgen/about_shell/who_we_are_1208.html
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look at this:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline
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ithink your talking about E85, the 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. there are about 600 pumps nationwide right now, but you can look up more information here http://www.e85fuel.com/index.php
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Petroleum and petroleum products predominantly to the US