It is a sign of the success of the oil industry that this analysis always takes the cost of electricity generation back to the source, but assumes that fuel stations pump from a perfect source of naturally refined/distilled hydrocarbons.
It is surprisingly difficult to get numbers on how much oil is used to extract, refine and transport oil.
It is surprisingly difficult to get numbers on how much oil is used to extract, refine and transport oil.
The best I found was this:
https://www.speakev.com/threads/energy-required-to-refine-oi...
Does anyone have better numbers?