It
is no secret our planets population is increasing at alarming rates and due to
the increase in the earth’s population we will use up our oil supply in a few
centuries. Oil is found on the oceans floor and comes from dead animals on the
sea’s floor and cooked by nature. Venezuela discovered oil in the beginning of
the 20th century and since then we have become addicted to a
non-renewable source of energy that took centuries to create and decades to
almost wipe out our supply. Oil companies displace citizens to bring in oil revenue;
many people believe “oil companies and politicians over exaggerate how much oil
is left on the sea’s floor” and the better you get at extracting oil the less
you have. It is also believed that we have exceeded our sustainable supply of
oil. “70% of oil use is for transportation fuel and 98% of transportation
energy comes from oil”. Oil based energy is known to be the reason for the
population increase within the last 150 years and with more people on the plant
comes more oil use; At this rate we will reach the end of our oil supply within
30 to 40 years. Another reason oil is easily attainable is because of cheap
labor. We, as humans, have become dependent on cheap labor in order to get our
oil supply. In the movie Crude Awakening republican
politician stated that “one barrel of oil was equal to 12 people working all
year long”. Author Matthew D. Savinar stated “25,000 hours of work and buying
oil for a dollar is basically free oil”; both quotes clearly support our
dependency on cheap labor in order to provide us with our daily necessities.
Oil peaked in the 1930’s and Two thirds of the earth’s oil reserve is in the
Middle East. Many countries publicize their oil usage as being consistent and
never changing when in reality countries oil production stays the same in order
to keep revenue coming in. Oil is used in many products we use in our daily
lives and we have become solely dependent on oil. Due to our dependency on oil
it is more likely that war will be a lot more common. “When oil was first
introduced to us it was scarce energy source and now it is something that is
easily attainable” some people even compare how we pay more for water than we
do for gas. China’s population has more than doubled over the last few years
and as we have seen in our own history, with the increase in population comes
an increase in oil usage. “Most of our oil will be drained by 2050” which will
lead to many countries in constant war over energy use because it will not be
enough oil to compensate for the earth’s population.
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