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Why do people think that building more power plants will seriously affect the price of gasoline?
Most cars run on gasoline which comes from oil.
Power plants produce electricity not gasoline.
In order for power plants to affect the price of gas cars need to run partially or fully on electricity or hydrogen.
Why do people keep making this mistake?
Mr. Stiggo- Name me some bulidings that run on oil. The only thing that you could say is heating oil, and that requires changeing pipes not more power plants.
Scott Y- as I said heating oil has more to do with the infrastructure in place than a lack of electricity only putting in electric heaters will change it.
As for natural gas we do not make gasoline out of natural gas we make it out of crude oil. While that can change currently gas only comes from crude.
8 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Well, if there are more nuclear power plants providing energy for buildings, then there will be fewer buildings using oil, thus reducing the demand for oil, thus dropping the price.
- Ford PrefectLv 71 decade ago
I realize that coal is the most used in power plants, and nuke....but think of the people that would switch to electricty from gas or oil furnaces if it was cheaper.....I realize that nothing is ever going to get cheaper, but with a undependable, wildly fluctuating commodity like oil, it might be better to have a steady supply of something else...more power plants means an alternative to oil in heating...I had a $300 bill for electric heat last month and my friend has a oil furnace...He's always checking the current price before he buys and I'm sure some times he pays a more than i do
Source(s): In the Midwest, you see a lot of wind generators and we have mostly Wyoming coal running the plants...there are a few Nuke plants, but I think its mostly coal...I would say 1/2 of the people in Minnesota have furnaces that use oil, propane, or natural gas...I've heard that one of those really big wind generators can supply the electricity for 20,000 people - Scott YLv 51 decade ago
Most conventional power plants run either by Natural Gas, Coal, Fuel Oil or Hydro-Electric. The Power Plants they are talking about are Nuclear Power Plants. Producing more power, freeing up Natural Gas, reducing the amount of heating oil used allowing more oil to be available for refining into Gasoline. We also need more refinery's which also a bottle neck.
- scorch_22Lv 61 decade ago
Most of our energy comes from power plants that run on oil.... but Nuclear Power is not realistic, we have a limited amount of plutonium, Nuclear Power Plants are dangerous, the waste has to be kept somewhere, and the reality is it wouldn't change the output of oil that much because of cars.
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- acyberwinLv 51 decade ago
Well, I don't know who is saying something like that... But I guess if everyone's heater ran on electricity in stead of heating oil, (which is also made from crude) I guess we would need less... Less demand same supply = less cost...
But I don't think converting all of the heating oil heaters in the country to electric would make much difference...
I was just trying to answer the question.
- Ryan FLv 51 decade ago
Mabye they confuse power plants with refineries?... I almost made this mistake when I first read your question...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I don't think that.
