Journal 16

- Reflect upon Squeezing More Oil from the Ground & Crude Awakening

Oil, oil, oil! It seems like now a days everything that matters revolves around oil. After watching Squeezing More Oil from the Ground and the Crude Awaking clips, I feel like our world is up a long river with absolutely no paddle. I feel after watching these videos that oil is almost an evil. I mean that in the sense that not only does oil control literally how much food we eat, because of escalading food prices, but it controls our governments, who in a way kind of control us. In the videos they talk about how oil starts and dictates wars.  Honestly I feel almost at a loss, because I want to say oh oil doesn’t control this or oil doesn’t control that, but I feel as though it almost ALWAYS does! It is sad that something that is way less complex than a human can have such control over our lives.And on top of all of that we don’t even have an absolute definite answer on how much oil there is actually left!

            I know that finding a replacement energy source for oil isn’t going to be easy, but after watching these videos it feels like leaders of many countries, especially ours, aren’t taking this crisis very seriously. It feels as though they are just trying to drill, drill, drill, for as long as possible! If they spent half as much money and time on coming up with solutions for renewable energy as they do with finding new oil reserves and fields, I think that we would be A LOT closer in finding a real replacement. Unfortunately this is not the case. As long as countries are still hooked on oil, people will be hooked on oil.