Crude Awakening
So many of the things we use today are made from crude oil or liquid petroleum, such as tires, tennis rackets, trash bags, tooth past, drugs, detergents, and fertilizers are all made from it. The US has only 4% of the earths population but guzzles about 25% of its oil supply. Have you ever thought about living with out oil well the worlds available petroleum supplies are going to run out. No one nos how much oil is left in the ground but scientists think about 2.6 trillion barrels. About 1.7 trillion barrels are what we call “discovered” oil-oil that we have found but not yet pumped.The remaining 900 billion barrels are “undiscovered”oil-oil that hasn’t been found. In 1956 geophysicist M.king Hubbert introduced the concept of the oil production peak. Hubbert predicted that the oil would peak in about 1970-and it did. Using Hubberts formula, world oil will peak in about 2030. Natural gas like oil is nonrenewable the longer the world waits to turn it into energy the more shocking the change will be.
