A person can look look at crude oil prices, curren
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That $20/bbl will be an approximation of what it costs to process and includes everything including transportation, processing, capital costs, inefficiencies, some profit, etc.... That number was lower in the past as well.
Diesel doesn't cost $20/bbl or $0.50/gallon because refineries generally need to pay market prices for the 'feedstock' crude oil. Just like the 'fuel' PTOI produces won't cost $0.25/gallon because PTOI needs to procure the plastics. Yes, PTOI could throw in free solid waste or get paid to take solid waste and really make the cost under $10/bbl...but then the oil produced would be close to worthless.