Crude Awakening
Our economy is based on oil and without it it would crash because about 90% of the worlds transportation runs on an oil called petroleum, we wouldn’t plastic goods, medican, or even toothpaste. Ever since the first oil well was drilled on the shore of Oil Creek in Titusville, Pa., in less than 150 years in the past our economy was changed for ever. U.S. government scientists say that only 2.6 trillion barrells are left in the ground but we wont find about 900 billion barrels. Oil is also expensive to extract from the rocks, the rocks must be heated to 900 degrees fahrenhiet. The U.S. doesn’t have enough oil for the whole country because we only have 22.7 billion barrels so we have to get most of it from the OPEC countries, Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and the biggest exporter Saudi Arabia. Oil costs now so much in the U.S. because Americans want giant Hummers and sports cars and we use up 25% of the worlds oil supply. Since the oil supply is running out sciencetistsare experimenting with new cars that run on solar power and compressed air. In Luxembourg they made the MiniCAT
that runs on comressed air. Source: Wikipedia and Crude Awakening article written by: Emma Davy
