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CHEMISTRY
The petroleum is the decomposition of raw organic matter, formed by the fossils of
marine, terrestrial plants and animals that it accumulates in porous rocks. It´s one of the
principal sources of energy and one of the most used since its discovery, the petroleum
have a lot of advantages like:
An industry as it is known oil at flourished, but at the same time that petroleum
prospered were doing irreparable damage to the planet. Such as:
Petroleum has helped greatly to the industrial revolution of the human by the power
generating and sub-products removed from that, and maybe of this we get 90% of the
energy we use in transportation and sub products that are used daily.
The oil being a fuel is neither bad nor good, since that harm the planet are the
companies, the owners of these to extract the raw material thinking only about money
and not environmental damage.
Disasters are caused by misuse that give human and carelessness during removal and
transport.
The best thing you could do is find ways to replace this product as using alternative
energy sources (wind, solar) in everyday and use a small portion of oil only for
necessities including gasoline aircraft for intercontinental travel. This way you can
reduce the use of oil and thus the greenhouse gases.
Make no mistake about that thanks to the human oil reached achieve all current
developments, which represent large advantages as:
Heating, electronic communications, the operation of the means of land and air
transport and other facilities that today man can enjoy.
But you cannot forget that oil is a nonrenewable resource which we must take care,
make responsible use for our own benefit and that of future generations.
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