What can you make from one Barrel of oil?

Researchers broke down a typical barrel of domestic crude oil into what could be produced from it. The average domestic crude oil has a gravity of 32 degrees and weighs 7.21 pounds per gallon. Here’s what you can make from one barrel of oil.

• Wax for 170 birthday candles or 27 crayons
• Distillate fuel to drive a large truck (five miles per gallon) for almost 40 miles. If jet fuel fraction is included, that same truck can run nearly 50 miles
• Asphalt to make about one gallon of tar for patching roofs or streets
• Nearly 70 kilowatt-hours of electricity at a power plant generated by residual fuel
• Liquefied gases, such as propane, to fill 12 small (14.1-ounce) cylinders for home, camping or workshop use
• 135 four-inch rubber balls
• 23 hula hoops
• 195 one-cup measuring cups
• 65 plastic dust pans
• 39 polyester shirts
• 11 plastic telephone housings
• 65 plastic drinking cups
• 750 pocket combs
• 540 toothbrushes
• Gasoline to drive a medium sized car (17 miles per gallon) for more than 280 miles
• About four pounds of charcoal briquettes
• Lubricants to make about one quart of motor oil

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