Oil is a product that has well-known uses as gasoline for your car or heating for your home. However, there are countless other things made from oil that most people have no idea about. Here are 7 products made from oil that may surprise you: 1) Curtains It is possible to turn oil into various kinds of petrochemicals via a refining process. One of these chemicals includes man-made (synthetic) fibers, and it can be used for weaving into curtains, as well as carpets, etc. Synthetic fibers look much better because they are not susceptible to wrinkles. Also, mildew and mold are less of a problem with petroleum-based curtains.
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In our world today the availability of energy largely depends on fossil fuel availability. These fossil fuels include oil, coal, and natural gas, and fossil fuel consumption constitutes about 80 percent of the total energy production across the globe. The biggest consumers in the world are China, U.S.A., and the European Union, with about half of the total world fossil fuel consumption attributed to them. According to other fossil fuel consumption statistics, it is mostly natural gas and oil that can be used far away from their extraction source, as it is difficult to transport coal for long distances. Fossil fuel consumption statistics also state that trade in fuels accounted for a total of US$715 billion worldwide in 2004.
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4. It is necessary to build power plants to fill the energy gap.
The energy crisis in California is often quoted to back up this claim. However, this energy crisis was not the result of a lack of electricity. It happened because of the electricity market manipulations, so building nuclear power plants cannot be justified in this case.
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Most people have heard that nuclear power is bad, but the reasons on this are fuzzy. To continue keeping our heads fuzzy, the industry feeds us all kinds of myths to counteract the research that confirms how harmful they are. Here are the top 7 nuclear power lies that the industry regularly presents us with:
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You have probably encountered oil conspiracy theories more than once in your lifetime. Whether you choose to believe them or not is up to you, but there are certain facts, oil secrets if you will, that the oil industry doesn’t want to talk too much about. Here are 3 things you may not know about oil:
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3 – Pickering nuclear power plant, ON.
Although this one isn’t technically in the U.S., the state of New York should be worried about the effects of this Ontario power plant. A mild earthquake has already occurred in Lake Ontario, where a tremor was definitely felt and objects fell to the floor. If a more serious earthquake were to happen, the effects to northern New York State could be devastating. Radiation leakage is also a potential threat and the reason many Pickering home owners have sold their homes and moved to other areas.
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The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has done some research about nuclear power plants in the US, and has determined the most dangerous nuclear power plants there are if an earthquake were to occur. Every year, the Commission has calculated, the chance of a typical nuclear reactor being damage by an earthquake (resulting in radiation exposure for the public) is 1 in 74,176. Scarily, this is 10 times more likely than winning the lottery (even as little as $10,000), where the odds would be 1 in 723,145.
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The favorite fossil fuel of the world has been oil, and since the 1960s its consumption in our world has only continued to grow. Giant oil companies refuse to accept any evidence of the fossil fuel global warming connection, continuing to secure more undiscovered reserves. It may seem obvious that with the looming dangers of global warming and the oil consumption hitting its peaks that the world would try to get away from using fossil fuels. But the statistics and predictions tell us otherwise. The future of fossil fuels doesn’t show any signs of reduction in use, and, if anything, it will only increase.
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Oil production in the United States peaked in 1970, and since then industry analysts have been debating just how long global oil reserves will be able to meet the growing demand. Some analysts believe that global production is reaching its peak right now. You can read about the facts and figures regarding global oil reserves in many articles such as this, but the truth is that no one really knows how much oil is left that can be feasibly extracted. OPEC producers keep it a big secret, as they don’t want to disclose how much oil they have found or think they will find. Some people think that the world is rapidly reaching the point where the growth in new supplies of oil cannot keep up with the the pace of oil depletion. Officials in the oil industry agree that the days of major new finds of cheap oil in well explored countries such as the US are over. There is still plenty of oil, but it is getting ever harder to find. However, as oil extraction technology develops, many prospects that were not economically feasible to develop before are now being developed. In the future, there will be prospects that are not worth developing today that future technologies will be able to handle. For instance, horizontal drilling is a new technology that means new pockets of oil that were previously unaffordable can now be extracted.
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• Coal mining in the past was not as environmentally friendly, or regulated
• There were a number of different coal mining methods used in the past
• Coal mining in the past was not as safe as the current mining methods used

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