Oil is a liquid that comes from the remains of ancient organisms. It is extracted from the ground as crude oil and refined for use. We rely heavily on oil for transportation, materials, and electricity generation. However, oil use contributes to issues like greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, and conflicts. While estimates vary, experts agree global oil reserves will eventually be depleted if consumption continues to rise unchecked. There is no consensus on when this may occur. Alternatives like biofuels and hydrogen fuel cells could replace oil in the long run, but conservation and responsible consumption are needed now to reduce reliance and environmental impacts. Everyone must do their part to address this important issue and work towards more sustainable energy solutions.

1. Oil - The Past, the present
and the future

2. Questions
Big Question:
How do my and other peoples oil consumption habits, affect the world in which I live?
Key Questions:
-Whose responsibility for ensuring we don’t run out of oil?
-What has caused our heavy reliance on oil?
Supporting Questions:
-What is oil, how do we get it and what is it turned into?
-How is oil used today?
-What issues are there with the use of oil?
-What are the consequences and effects of running out of oil and what alternatives are
there?
-How are people at home consuming oil?
-How much oil are we consuming. how much is left and how long is it till we run out of
it?
-How does the oil market work and how does it affect consumption?
-What is currently being done to conserve oil?
-What long term alternatives and solutions are there with oil?
-What can people at home do about the situation.

3. What is Oil?
A liquid Substance
referred to as crude
oil if its straight out
of the ground.
When it comes out of
the ground it is
called crude oil

4. What is Oil?
A liquid Substance
referred to as crude oil
if its straight out of the
ground.
When it comes out of the
ground it is called crude
oil
It can come in different
colours from jet black to
straw colored.

5. Creating and Accessing
The process over time
1. Microscopic animals die
and sink the bottom of the
sea. From oil rigs and oil
2. Materials bury the wells drills drill
animals down into the ground
3. and 4. The pressure to access the oil
builds up and it then
turns into oil.

6. Transporting and
Refining
As oil is a liquid we have been able to come
up with innovative ways to transport it.
Oil pipelines span the world connecting oil
wells with ports and refineries
Oil is refined by heating it up and then
progressively cooling it down

7. Our use of oil
Ways we use it
Transportation
- cars Agriculture
- Trucks - Pesticide
- Busses - Herbicides
- Boats - Fertilizers
- Air travel
Electricity
Materials Generation
- Plastics
- Synthetic

8. Oil Markets
Oil is traded in its different forms on the
oil market
Oil prices quoted on the news are sport
prices
The price is effected by supply and demand
The fuel price at the petrol pump is heavily
reliant on the price of oil

9. Production and Consumption
Oil consumption is still on the rise
Estimated 85 million barrels of oil
consumed a day
The USA is the largest oil consumer in the
world.
Three countries produce 40% of the world’s
oil

10. Issues with oil
Green house gas emissions
air pollution - toxic fog/smog
Acid rain
Oil spills
Driving conflicts

11. Will it run out
IT is not a simple issue
New oil fields are being discovered
More oil is needing to be pumped to meet
demand
Different people have different points of
view from never to 20 or 30 years.

12. Overconsumption
Without oil we would have limited
transportation options.
Plastics would become un-produceable
We will lose fertilizers
We won’t be able to make any pesticides.

13. Alternatives
I think biofuel can used as an alternative in
the short term.
We can use hydrogen fuel cells to power
the car of the future.
Replace oil energy production with clean
renewable sources

14. Why are we so reliant?
Oil has been able to take the jobs of
humans more productively and efficiently.
Cars are reliant on oil driving demand
The hydrocarbons have been harvested to
produce nylons and plastics
Oil companies are focused on money first,
the world later.

15. Who is responsible?
No one is willing to take responsibility
This means that responsibilities fall onto
us, the consumer.
We can persuade manufactures to look for
alternatives to oil based products.
We need to take up our share of the
responsibility for the future of our planet

16. Large scale
conservation

17. My Consumption
Habits

18. Taking Action