• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    3 days ago

    Bro thinks they can just Mad Max a couple million barrels of crude realisations through the deserts of enlightenment evey day

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      I mean they could

      A barrel is 42 gallons.

      A 4 trailer road train can carry up to 32,000 gallons.

      Oil tanker can be 70,000 barrels plus.

      Which is let’s say 3 million gallons.

      So it would take a single road train about 94 trips or 94 road trains 1 trip.

      So they just need a road that may or may not exist and a couple thousand trucks and about 4 times as many trailers.

      • zemo@lemmy.world
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        Oil tanker can be 70,000 barrels plus.

        The “plus” is doing a lot of work here. Oil tankers can be up to several million barrels.

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          2 days ago

          Yeah, I picked scratch numbers from Wikipedia and picked low numbers to make the point. The bigger ones are 10 times the size so you can just add a zero.

      • Kairos@lemmy.todayOP
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        3 days ago

        Yes I’m sure there’s a train line from point A to B, the employees for it, and nearby crude oil refineries to fuel the train.

  • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    The problem is you’re going through 2, potentially 3 countries there.

    The crisis of faith looks pretty close to where the 3 might meet even.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Well, realising you’re actually just going to sit in the dark transcends countries.

      (More credibly, I’m guessing sending several thousand trucks through a random patch of the Middle East would not be cheap, regardless of borders)

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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      I have never heard of this before and rather than Google it I’m going to decide that if you put 5-10 parallel rail lines to spread the weight you can actually put a whole oil tanker on rollers to drive it across the desert to the other side of the continent.

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