OIL CONSERVATION TOWARDS A HEALTHY

AND BETTER ENVIRONMENT

Oil has various uses and applications in our day to day life.But the
alarming thing about oil is that it is limited in amount and once it is
finished it shall takes millions of years to renew and will have severe
reprecussions and an aftermath that most people will not be able to
imagine or even survive in.Another perturbing thing about oil is the
amount of activities that it is used in which are nessecary for survival of
mankind.Oils are primarily of three types:Animal,vegetable and
petrochemical.Oil is used in cooking food, for medical
purposes,lubrication and manufacture of many types of
paints.Petrochemical oil or petroleum is obtained from remains of dead
aquatic plants and animals and once it is all used up it would take
millions of years to replenish.Petroleum is further refined to create petrol
which is used as fuel in motor vehicles.Parafin wax and asphalt are both
by-products of petroleum and asphalt is used in cementing roads.We
can conserve oil in various ways.We can walk,ride a bicycle,use metro
or bus and carpool for short distances.For the purpose of oil
conservation,electric and solar powered cars are being manufactured by
companies like “Tesla”.Conserving oil means less usage of it,hence less
pollution will be caused by vehicles or there would be less water
pollution as there would be less factories dumping unused oil into water
bodies.But our utmost concern is the amount of oil we use
everyday.Currently,we are using 30 billion barrels of oil every year,84
million barrels a day and a thousand barrels each second.8 billion
barrels of oil can run the world for 3 months only.It is estimated that we
have used 135 billion tonnes of oil and at this rate our oil reserves will
have been depleted by the year 2050.Hence, oil is a very imortant and
vital component of our day to day life and must learn to conserve it for a
healthy and better environment.