Oil

[TheFaQQer]

I remember an ex-girlfriend of a mate of mine saying that she couldn't why everyone was worried about the price of oil because she only put oil in once a month or so. She was more worried about the price of petrol...

[oracleslave]

I remember an ex-girlfriend of a mate of mine saying that she couldn't why everyone was worried about the price of oil because she only put oil in once a month or so. She was more worried about the price of petrol...

couldn't understand?

HTH

[VectraMan]

I remember an ex-girlfriend of a mate of mine saying that she couldn't why everyone was worried about the price of oil because she only put oil in once a month or so. She was more worried about the price of petrol...

You may laugh but I caught some of BBC news at ten yesterday, and Gavin Estler, economics editor explained that "petrol comes from oil".

John Craven's newsround was more intellectually challenging in its day than both the BBC and ITV main evening news programmes are now.

[TimberWolf]

Petrol is one of the lighter fractions of hydrocarbon chains distilled from crude oil, but that doesn’t mean it necessarily has to come from crude oil. And depending on the oil quality, you might have plentiful supply of crude to supply demand but still a shortage of petrol.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13217913.000.html