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One must figure in supertanker costs and fuel consumption. pipeline costs, offshore drilling rig costs, and other drilling costs.Virtually all of the energy used to produce gasoline is supplied by fuel that is a byproduct of the refining process. Diesel fuel runs generators and pumps. According to Wiki, about 46% of a barrel of crude is sold as gasoline. Seeing that oil companies also sell diesel, heavy fuel oil, tar for road surfaces and oil for lubrication, as well as byproducts used to make plastics, it would seem to me that there must be more energy produced than consumed.I am not so sure that the production does not already consume more than 100% of yield in producing gasoline.