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Equipped with your oil source, it's time to starting making fuel. In LV you can't make diesel yet, so the best option is light fuel. The best route should be using a distillery to turn oil into sulfuric light fuel, then combining it with H2 in a chemical reactor for light fuel. Generally these steps don't use much H2, so an electrolyzer with water will be able to keep up.

Once you reach MV, it's diesel time. Simply making more distilleries to distill oil into sulfuric heavy fuel, and making an MV mixer will boost your power generated by a lot.

Once you reach MV, it's diesel time. Simply making more distilleries to distill oil into sulfuric heavy fuel, and making an MV mixer will boost your power generated by a lot. The ratio is generally 3 LF distilleries to 2 HF distilleries.

From here, you have many options. There are other fuels, like cetane boosted diesel, or high octane gasoline. It seems that at the moment however, diesel is the best fuel that exists. Despite having a lower energy density, the production is so simple and scalable that it blows the others out of the water. Generally the scaling for diesel involves many lower tier parallel distilleries and eventually using a PA for them. You can swap out single block chem reactors for an LCR in HV which makes that step a little simpler as a single LCR is usually more than enough. Tiering up your drilling rig is a huge help, as each tier will 4x the lifespan of your oil vein. This is vital as you progress, as diesel only has a singular downside. This downside being the oil usage. You most likely will not be able to scale diesel with an oil source other than a drilling rig, however these rigs can carry you very far.

The is one main rule when using diesel power, and it is to keep it simple. Diesel benefits from its scalability, something that other fuels lack. Multiblocks like the distillation tower, or alternative distillation routes with crackers generally just slow things down. Avoiding the distillation tower might seem wrong as it is generally so much better than singleblock distilleries, but that is not true with diesel. The math behind it is pretty simple, and intuitive once you understand it. The DT recipe for oil is the same speed as using an MV singleblock, however it gives all byproducts. That said, you only really want light fuel, and heavy fuel, so you can more or less say it is just 2x better than a singleblock. This is awful when you think about it, as two singleblocks will always be a lot cheaper and easier to use than a distillation tower. Especially when diesel setups can use dozens to hundreds of singleblocks. What is easier, 32 HV distilleries, or 16 Distillation towers?