A barrel of 

oil

apparently consists of 42 gallons of crude oil. Refineries then yield that into about 20 gallons of 

gaosline

. Of that my

Hyundai

has consumed about 5200 gallons going by the mileage, my driving patterns, and fuel efficiency.

That means this car, at my and my family's behest, has guzzled 260 barrels of oil. What for? Cars are not biological creatures like humans. They do not burn fuel when their engine is off. There is no internal temperature that they must maintain nor do they need to keep their cylinders humming at a minimum RPM. When I turn the key the car turns completely off. That's the difference between us compared to them. I guess that's why we say that they are not alive.

Leave a human with no water for three days and you'll come back to a corpse. Or give them water and leave them with no food and they'll be gone in three months. There's no turning off of an animal. An animal is just a singular unit we assign to biological system running its cycles moment in and moment out until death.

What was it all for? The 5200 gallons of petrol made from 260 barrels of oil that got burned into the air. A lot of life. A lot of going here for that person and going with this person to that place.