How many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline?

Question

While I suppose that most of the carbon in America's favorite fossil
fuel is botanical in origin, it's easier to get a gut feel for unrenewability by considering dinosaurs.

So to be more specific, if you estimate the number of carbon atoms in one full-grown adult tyrannosaur, what volume of 92 octane gasoline would that represent? And conversely, how many dinosaurs could you build out of the carbon in one gallon of gas?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Not that many tyrannosaurs, probably only 2 or 3 per gallon. I hear 4 per gallon can give you 94 ocatane at Sunoco. Your best best though is for fossilized aborted fetuses, one of those gets you a 55 gallon drum of 92 octane.

Answer 3

None, gasoline (petroleum) was not formed by decomposing dinosaurs! but from decomposing marine organisms