Gasoline is a by product of making diesel and kerosene.
When you refine crude in to diesel you distill out gasoline http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/o.....still.html
You cant make one with out the other. so the crude that the military is using has already been “cracked to gasoline”

Sixteen gallons of oil. That’s how much the average American soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan consumes on a daily basis — either directly, through the use of Humvees, tanks, trucks, and helicopters, or indirectly, by calling in air strikes. Multiply this figure by 162,000 soldiers in Iraq, 24,000 in Afghanistan, and 30,000 in the surrounding region (including sailors aboard U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf) and you arrive at approximately 3.5 million gallons of oil: the daily petroleum tab for U.S. combat operations in the Middle East war zone.Multiply that daily tab by 365 and you get 1.3 billion gallons: the estimated annual oil expenditure for U.S. combat operations in Southwest Asia. That’s greater than the total annual oil usage of Bangladesh, population 150 million — and yet it’s a gross underestimate of the Pentagon’s wartime consumption.Such numbers cannot do full justice to the extraordinary gas-guzzling expense of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After all, for every soldier stationed “in theater,” there are two more in transit, in training, or otherwise in line for eventual deployment to the war zone — soldiers who also consume enormous amounts of oil, even if less than their compatriots overseas. Moreover, to sustain an “expeditionary” army located halfway around the world, the Department of Defense must move millions of tons of arms, ammunition, food, fuel, and equipment every year by plane or ship, consuming additional tanker-loads of petroleum. Add this to the tally and the Pentagon’s war-related oil budget jumps appreciably, though exactly how much we have no real way of knowing…

Costs are estimated at $42/gallon to get the crude from there to here and back. Not counting the cost of the actual fuel itself.

Cost aside, our trucks, airlines and railroads would do nicely if all that fuel were available for use here.

Heck, we only had a population of, what, eighty million people from coast to coast. We weren’t running out of anything. If the US population was still 100 million today, gasoline would still be 75¢ a gallon.

And yes, everyone with a brain knows that tempatures cause high C02 levels. I just can’t remember if it’s high tempatures or low tempatures. One thing I do know is that high C02 levels do cause increased temperature. I haven’t measured it myself, but I think I’m going to trust the opinion of Al Gore and, oh, pretty much every climatologist on planet earth that doesn’t work for an oil company.

The one thing that ties us all together is our love for these old articles, so let’s set politics aside.

You might be right though, who needs all that oil, few million people might freeze this winter, but most of them live in the blue states. And, without the water pumps a few more blue staters might get a bit thirsty.

Let’s require every city or metro area to be self-sufficient, then they wouldn’t have to import stuff over a long distance.

And I wouldn’t worry about Al Gore’s home; good old Cheney will make sure we kill whomever it takes to get us our precious oil!

I believe this also applies to Al Gore’s home/spread in Tennessee.