I have brought this up to environmentalists before and never got a good answer (really any answer). It goes even deeper IMO than the fact that we need these other products, since you can't make the other products without making the fuel biproducts. I read that back in the 1800s when oil was refined for kerosene, they would throw the gasoline away (usually in a river). Of course we could never dump the unwanted fuel biproducts in a river, so I guess the alternative would be to store them which would be very costly I'm guessing.
I have brought this up to environmentalists before and never got a good answer (really any answer). It goes even deeper IMO than the fact that we need these other products, since you can't make the other products without making the fuel biproducts. I read that back in the 1800s when oil was refined for kerosene, they would throw the gasoline away (usually in a river). Of course we could never dump the unwanted fuel biproducts in a river, so I guess the alternative would be to store them which would be very costly I'm guessing.
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