Will a gas engine run on crude oil? (2018) [video]

'Can run' is pretty meaningless. Will it run for 10 years? What does the extra maintenance cost? The fouled valves, the overheating damage?

Gasoline is refined because engines can run on that efficiently for long periods of time.

But anyway its a fun experiment.

He used two types of crude oil, but note that the oil from each site is different, very different. It's easy to see the difference with color https://www.google.com/search?q=crude+oil+color&tbm=isch but the viscosity and composition also change.

This page has a nice graph of different oils and their density and sulfur content https://kimray.com/training/types-crude-oil-heavy-vs-light-s...

https://youtu.be/QEX1YFXYTdI

Mythbusters proved a car can run on cooking oil that is used.