When humanity had just begun to get acquainted with oil, it took this unpleasantly smelling substance, oily and tarry-black, for the blood of the earth. Paradoxically, the first guesses of people came true later. Only the blood of the planet can be called oil - black gold, as it is now called this viscous-liquid substance, formed over millions of years in the bowels of the earth. Moreover, given its organic origin.
According to modern science, oil and hydrocarbon gases are of sedimentary-migratory origin. This theory is based on the fact that scientists have discovered hydrocarbons in relatively recent marine and freshwater bottom sediments. They were formed from organic residues of plant and animal origin.
Yes, precious black gold now, along with natural gas, has become the product of the decomposition of the most ancient earthly organisms. I once wondered how the places where the richest oil fields are now located could once look like. When and why did the conversion of organic matter take place? Apparently, millions of years ago, when the present outlines of the continents and seas were just being formed.
Nevertheless, no matter how the oil fields are formed, a person should be grateful to the planet for such a valuable gift. What applications have not been invented for oil and its derivatives! I sincerely believe that the production of fuel from it is an irrational and uneconomical expenditure of an irreplaceable
natural resource. After all, you can not name the industry where derivatives of oil would not be used.
Pharmacology and medicine are synthesizing more and more hydrocarbon-based drugs. The chemical industry has made a grand breakthrough in the last couple of centuries, producing materials and substances from petroleum products that people dared not even think about before. A heavy, light, food industry could not meet the needs of an ever-growing humanity if it were not for such a resource as black gold.
So much has been done in the modern world from this substance, so much is tied to it that it becomes scary. After all, this is an exhaustible resource, irreplaceable. And, according to scientists, it will be exhausted pretty soon. In our century, our children, the maximum - grandchildren. I don’t want to think about what awaits a person when black gold is over.
Where will countries building their entire economy on hydrocarbon exports come to? If oil runs out in Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Norway and both Americas ... There are predictions that humanity will be cast back in its development to the level of past "pre-oil" centuries. We can close our eyes and believe that the problems will pass by, but the future will force us to act in order to survive.
They say that engines capable of using other fuels, including hydrogen or water, have long been created. But world corporations buy patents from inventors, not releasing their ideas to the world in order to further enrich themselves, selling black gold and gasoline made from it, scooping up deposits that once seemed to be bottomless.
Very soon, all of humanity will have to suffer due to the fact that several families have enriched themselves beyond all borders. Everyone knows that our world is unfairly arranged. Will the depletion of oil be the beginning of a universal end? Nobody knows that.