Essay On Crude Oil Since 1970

1. There are several main reasons for the decrease in U.S. crude oil production since 1970. One is the simple fact that we are running out of crude oil reserves in the U.S. So, the U.S. is trying to meet its energy needs by using natural gas, coal, etc. In addition to trying to use other sources of energy, the U.S. is being forced to look at harvesting more oil offshore (which is 10 times as expensive as on-shore drilling) or to keep importing vast amount of oil from OPEC. Unless we importing becomes too expensive, it will probably be our greatest source of oil unless we digger deeper wells, tap into more Alaskan preserves, or create deep ocean wells. Source: The Energy textbook
2. “Though the oil has mostly disappeared from view, many Alaskan beaches remain polluted to this day, crude oil buried just inches below the surface.” –The Atlantic. This quote by The Atlantic is somewhat reliable, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has agreed to a certain degree. The administration agrees that there may be still be oil in the shores near Prince William Sound, however the amount remaining and the possible effects it may have had/have on the environment is up for debate. To some people, the fact that there is even the smallest amount of oil remaining in the sound is ‘proof’ enough for them

Air standards related to emissions are ones that look at products or processes which emit pollutants, and if the product/factory/etc. is producing too concentrated pollutants, they are required by law to filter and constrain pollutants to meet the standards. The air standards related to local atmospheric concentrations of pollutants focuses on a certain community (in a city, in a neighborhood, etc.) that has too high of a concentration of pollutants. It then, after finding out this community is too high in pollutants, requires the people and places within this region to use “modified pollution-control devices” to “achieve the lowest emissions, regardless of