IL
A crude awaking
blood of dinosaurs
BLOOD OF EARTH
Devil's excrement
Stream of economy
Oil is our God
Magnet for wars
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“I never thought I would wish, let alone pray, for higher oil prices, but I am, the world badly needs higher oil prices.”
Han de Jong, chief economist at ABN Amro Bank NV in Amsterdam.
What really is oil and how it is made?
Crude oil is a naturally occurring, unrefined petroleum product composed of hydrocarbon deposits and other organic materials. Crude oil can be refined to produce usable products such as gasoline, diesel and various forms of petrochemicals. It is a nonrenewable resource, also known as a fossil fuel, which means that it can't be replaced naturally at the rate we consume it and is therefore a limited resource.
Crude oil was first discovered and developed during the Industrial Revolution, and it's industrial uses were first developed in the 19th century. Newly invented machines revolutionized the way we do work, and they depended on these resources to run. Today, the world's economy is largely dependent on fossil fuels such as crude oil, and the demand for these resources often spark political unrest, since a small number of countries control the largest reservoirs. Like any industry, supply and demand heavily affects the prices and profitability of crude oil. The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia are the leading producers of oil in the world.
Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/crude-oil.asp#ixzz4MDuSotEF
Emissions and Byproducts Are Produced from Burning Petroleum Products
Petroleum products give off the following emissions when they are burned as fuel:
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Carbon dioxide (CO2)
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Carbon monoxide (CO)
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Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
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Nitrogen oxides (NOX) and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
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Particulate matter (PM)
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Lead and various air toxics such as benzene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and 1,3-butadiene may be emitted when some types of petroleum are burned
Nearly all of these byproducts have negative impacts on the environment and human health:
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Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and a source of global warming.1
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SO2 causes acid rain, which is harmful to plants and to animals that live in water, and it worsens or causes respiratory illnesses and heart diseases, particularly in children and the elderly.
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NOX and VOCs contribute to ground-level ozone, which irritates and damages the lungs.
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PM results in hazy conditions in cites and scenic areas, and, along with ozone, contributes to asthma and chronic bronchitis, especially in children and the elderly. Very small, or “fine PM” is also thought to cause emphysema and lung cancer.
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Lead can have severe health impacts, especially for children, and air toxics are known for probable carcinogens.
http://environment-ecology.com/energy-and-environment/92-how-does-oil-impact-the-environment.html
IL SPILLS
Oil and its impact on enviroment
The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010 (87 days later), an estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf.
There were some immediate impacts to the animals of the Gulf of Mexico that could be seen with the naked eye: pelicans black with oil, fish belly-up in brown sludge, smothered turtles washed up on beaches. The impact of the spill on fish communities is still largely unknown. Lab studies have shown that oil can cause heart defects in the developing larvae of bluefin tuna and other fish, but we won't know if this occurred in the wild until after those larvae would have grown up. Some fish larvae populations actually grew after the spill, as they had more food in the form of oil-eating microbes.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WE RUN OUT OF OIL?
Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world, and the combustion engine its indomitable heart. In 2009, oil wells around the world pumped an estimated 84 to 85 million barrels out of the Earth, and countries consumed just as much