If you stop to think what oil MEANS in our lives will not seem an exaggeration to say that we live in the era of oil. Oil is
allowing our transport and all things around us (via boats, planes, trucks, cars ...) and it is what they are made roads (asphalt), is the source of energy with which we do things around us which allows heating, cooling and lighting buildings and streets, is what they are made fertilizers and pesticides that allows the food we eat, is what they are made much of the drug is essential material most objects around us that have become everyday and essential, is a component of most chemicals ...
Oil is the basis of the current way of life and economic development. It has allowed the world population multiplied sixfold.
is behind almost every war and every economic crisis, the later (2008).
is behind much of pollution and ecological disasters, spills, emissions, climate change ...
much oil is left is hard to say but it seems that there is agreement that we reached the zenith and the decline will be gradual.
increasingly harder to extract it and find it. Paradoxically, the demand is growing. More consumption, more population and growing percentage of population accessing consumption (especially in China and India).
With all current oil price is far from its production value. Is mainly due to the intricacies of a globalized world and uncontrolled speculation that a well must, increasingly scarce and most in demand.
In 2005, when he made this documentary, the production of a barrel of oil production had a cost of between 5 and 10 dollars and was selling at 40 or 50 dollars. The record high was in July 2008, it was $ 140 a barrel. In early 2011, the barrel is around $ 100.
See also: Transition Town
Oil of Discord
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