Oil's Indispensable Role in Modern Society

All things made of plastic is made of oil. All pesticides used to remove pests from crops are made from oil. Everything from bottles to tires are made from oil. There is unquestionably nothing anywhere in any amalgamation that will substitute the assembly made by fossil fuels. Nothing at all. As oil became a common means around the early 1900’s, the population rate exploded, and it reaches 6.5 billion people in only a few decades. The human population exceeded 7 billion people on October 31, 2011, and according to the U.N., it’s working to reach 8 billion by 2025 (USA Today). All of us exist on this planet mainly because of oil, so it’s understandable that if you take away the oil, the populace would go away as well, because almost everything

Peak oil is pretty much like a bell curve, which is a line on a graph that goes in a constant up-and-down pattern. At the top of the bell curve is where peak oil is located on the graph and that means worldwide, half of the resource has been consumed, and that half of the resource that’s been lost will return some thousands of years from now. That’s too long for us to wait, not to mention that fossil fuels are the cause of the ongoing deterioration of the earth’s atmosphere. In the circumstance of oil or some other material like it, production will never increase above where it was at its peak, no matter how money is thrown into the resource. From an investigator’s point of view, if you are attempting to accumulate the pieces of a case’s motives and means, to comprehend what power drives what events, peak oil was nearly within the stroke of a razor’s edge, the solitary part which instigated everything to echo and seem sensible

Let’s assume that there’s, let’s say, 500 billion barrels of oil up there. Unfortunately, that oil just so happens to be lying under a glacial ice cap sitting on a “mean depth of 3,410 feet” of water (Dimensions Info). The issue with glacial ice caps is that they aren’t solid pieces of land. Ice caps float across the water so it’s impossible to drill a well there. If you drill a test well on an ice cap today, it will be somewhere else by tomorrow. That’s why there much skepticism about conservatives and oil companies wanting the ice caps completely gone so they can go