I’ve read that gasoline was known for years as a by product of the kerosene distillation process but originally too volatile to be used. Eventually someone came along and figured we could use it and we know what happened after that.
So my question is, during the distillation process do we go ahead and continue distilling crude the same way we did to make kerosene with the goal of obtaining gasoline?
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That’s true, back in the early days of oil drilling and refining, kerosene was the product they were refining for, gasoline was considered a waste product, and often dumped in rivers and lakes just to get rid of it, until methods were developed to harness it’s explosive tendencies, the best example, most vehicle engines are run today, by injecting explosive gasoline vapors/mists into the piston chambers of cars trucks and buses, a spark plug, and a few other methods ignite the gasoline vapors exploding the gas, pushing all those pistons up and down, turning a crank shaft in circles round and round, attached to the transmission, and then to the drive shaft of your car which then which then turns a series of gears, turning you axle/s round and around very fast, along with the tires/wheels attached to the ends of the axles, and off down the road you go.
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