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What best describes the relationship between the US and oil?
Many statements might fit here:What began in the late 1800s as a love of oil (and the potential wealth oil brings) has turned to a love-hate relationship with oil. Oil has a wealth of uses, but also a wealth of consequences.The United States uses one-quarter of the world's energy.The United States is the second-largest producer of oil in the world.The United States imports more oil than any other country.The United States suffers from a blind and selfish dependency on oil.The United States struggles with ending its dependency on oil, especially when lobbyists fight this.The United States argues with itself over off-shore oil drilling. Catastrophes would truly be catastrophic, but the "oil race" continues.
What is an oil reserve?
An oil reserve is a discovered but not yet consumed pocket of oil. Reserves are typically in the form of crude oil that is pumped out of the ground as liquid, or tar sand that is mined and later processed into oil.
What did lay your room in oil mean to the colonists?
How did the colonists lay a room in oil
Who made a fortune in the oil business?
John D. Rockefeller is famous for having made a fortune in the oil business. He co-founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870.
Benefits of OPEC?
The OPEC is a body that links the major oil producing countries and provides a framework of how they will do the production and marketing. It gives them collective bargaining to get the best prices.
What natural resource is mined off the shores of bimini?
oil
Is commercial oil drilling and deepwater oil drilling the same?
Yes
What does Offshore drilling mean?
Off-shore drilling is the search for and collection of oil lying in the ground under the relatively shallow waters of the continental shelf.
How is drilling for natural gas different from drilling for oil?
Drilling for natural gas is similar to drilling for oil, but gas must be liquefied before it can be shipped.
When was the oil drilling ban amended?
the only ban on oil drilling was in 1919
Why aren't we drilling for oil here in the US?
We are drilling for oil in the united states
What are the Processes in oil well drilling?
The drilling of crude oil wells both on and off-shore uses the laying of pipes and drill bits. A modern method of drilling is hydraulic fracturing, or fracking which uses fluids to break up natural gas formations.
When did the oil in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill hit land?
April 30th: First easily visible oil hits Lousiana's shores. May 19th: Heavy oil first hits Lousiana's shores. June 1: Oil hits Mississippi's shores. June 4: Oil hits Florida's shores.
What is main economic land usage in northern Canada and Alaska?
Oil Drilling
What is off shore drilling?
In search of Fossil fuels, humans take to the sea. They build a platform in the sea, a mobile island if you will, and from there, they start drilling down in the sea floor, until they reach the oil bubble. This oil bubble gets emptied and the humans leave with their oil and their island.
What costs more - drilling or mining oil sands?
drilling
Petroleum Commodities how many are there?
With oil drilling starting off shore how long will it take to ruin the environment?
