By: Piper
You can check out the links, they just give you some more info. Whatever I thought was important I put in though. 'Scuse the profanity, it's nothing too bad, really. There's actually 4 questions, but I haven't been able to research much about the last one.
But yea, here you go:
You can check out the links, they just give you some more info. Whatever I thought was important I put in though. 'Scuse the profanity, it's nothing too bad, really. There's actually 4 questions, but I haven't been able to research much about the last one.
But yea, here you go:
Science: Why oil companies suck
Question: Why would the oil companies lie about how much oil really IS produced? Wouldn’t they want better energy?
Answer: Yea, sorry my lovely, friend, but they really don’t care. Now, what do you think when I say “American economy?” Well…in your case it may be happy families, famous celebrities, and an overall sound country. Again, sorry to crush your little dreams. I think: debt crisis, obesity, health care problems, budget cuts and people living in turmoil. Yea, sucks doesn't it? WELL, MY LOVELY ASSISSTANT. We can change that, can’t we? Yes and no. Yes, because we can do numerous other things that aren’t important to this discussion. No, because we’re so dependent on oil. More than you may think. That dependency is actually ruining us. Believe it or not, we’re running OUT of oil, quicker than you would think. Buuuttttt….the oil companies aren’t telling us how much we really have left. They amplify the amount they really have, to make everyone calm so we don’t have a huge oil uproar. Oil sucks, man. I mean, look at the BP Oil Spill!!! Dude. Not cool. And about better energies? Well, lets say everyone in America uses solar panels. No electricty, what so ever. Our cars are also powered by the sun, EVERYTHING. We'd probably produce so much energy, we'd be OVER producing, using less than we make. That makes energy super dooper cheap! Like, back when we had--what we thought was--limitless amounts of oil? And it was like 25 cents per gallon? Yea, same situation here. We over produce all this energy, store it, use it when we CAN'T produce some (due to something or another, like it's really cloudy and stormy and no sun at all) then we would probably have such an abundant amount of it, that it would practically free! Think the oil companies like THAT idea?
Question: If the oil companies really ARE exaggerating about the quantity of oil, wouldn’t this be a huge deal if there was even a doubt?
Answer: Yea, wouldn’t there be? But no really, people can say all they want, they really don’t care. Think of how much MONEY they have. Let me put it in perspective for you:
1 dude in the oil industry:
Lets say the produce 1 barrel of oil in a day. Well, a single barrel is 42 gallons of crude oil which, when processed, is about 19-20 gallons of useable gasoline (the stuff we put in our car to kill the Earth)
Your car holds aarrrooouunnndddd…12 gallons. Okay, well that’s an extremely rough estimate. So with today’s road/gas/whatever effieciency, you get about 25 miles to the gallon (according to a study in 2004) So, just on one barrel of gas, you could go about…500 miles. You could get to LA just using that one barrel.
Now, 20 gallons of gas. Well, a single gallon costs about 3.50 to almost 5 dollars. Let’s say you’re REALLY smart, and go for the 3.50 dollar gas station. For 12 gallons (what you would use to fill up your car. You have a small car) you would have to pay 42 dollars. Now, lets look at some statistics.
According to this link: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-consumption/gas-price1.htm This is how a single dollar you pay for gas is spent:
Taxes: 13 cents
Distribution and Marketing: 8 cents
Refining: 14 cents
Crude oil: 65 cents
Roughly. So that’s a whole dollar. Well now, just that one guy made 41 dollars, just on one person!Now think of the MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of people spending 42 dollars a day on gas. Half a million people? That’s 21,000,000 dollars, A DAY, for just half a million people?! There’s 7 BILLION people in this world. According to one result I found, about 251 million people in America drive. Think of the money you would make with that! Dude, you would WANT to over estimate the amount of your oil, yet say you’re running out to jack up the prices. THAT’S why oil companies aren’t doing anything.
Question: Well, now that you fried my brain with numbers…what should we do?
Answer: Yea, I fried my brain too. I had to ask google what half a million looked like cuz of all the crazy intense stuff I was doing. But anyway, you can do anything! Yell, protest, sit around and cry. Okay. Don’t do that. Baby…but! You should totally do something, I mean…is it comforting to know that we’re practically suffocating ourselves in our own mess? Yes. I’m talking about the CO^2 in our atmosphere. Off topic? Not even close my friend. All that stuff in our air? Yea. We put it up there, and now it’s coming back to haunt us. Global warming? Glaciers melting? The poles shrinking? Yea, we’ve all heard about it on the news, don’t kid yourself. But, WHY is it happening? You guessed it, OIL!!! Well…gas more importantly…but it’s really the same thing once you look at it. With all the cars (oil consumption), drilling OF oil (more consumption) and even just doing your job, be you a carpenter, contractor, fashion designer, you name it! In some way, shape or form, you’re contributing to the oil crisis. We’re all to blame!!! Well…except the hippies and people who have zero-energy consuming homes and walk everyone. I mean, just by writing this ANSWER, I’m burning oil. We’re all the cause of this crisis, not just your neighbor, not just the gas-guzzling car you own, not even God, or Allah, or whomever you believe in. It’s all of us. We’re all to blame. And dude, we’re to hell if we don’t do anything.
Question: How much waste is created due to crude oil?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_drive_cars_each_day_in_the_US
Hi!!!!!!!!!
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