Micaela’s Blog

The world’s available oil supply is beginning to run out. Our culture is very dependent on crude oil. Oil is the most important product traded between countries. Although we don’t know exactly how much oil is left in the ground, geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicts the world’s oil will peak in about 23 years. Peak oil production means that the first half of the oil from an oil field is easier to pump than the second half. According to geologists new oil will be more difficult and expensive to drill. Since the majority of the world’s oil comes from the Middle East politics have made things difficult in the past. The government needs to move towards oil free choices because the world’s oil is disappearing quickly.

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