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1. Write the #'s 1-6 on your white board.
2. Answer the following six questions to the best of your ability. RELAX!
THIS IS NOT A TEST
·How did you get to school today?
·What is the primary means of transportation in your community?
·What is the most common form of transportation in the US?
·What fuel makes a car run?
·Where does gasoline come from?
·What is gasoline?
http://www.teachingtools.com/EN/documents/Crude_Energy.pdf
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PreHistory-1849
Vast Reserves Small scale use
1850-1929
Excavation US
1930-1974
Global Environment
1975-Today
Geopolitics
http://www.wbng.com/news/local/137639503.html
http://www.wbng.com/news/local/137639503.html
PETROLEUM
"ROCK OIL"
http://iprb.or
g/storyofpetr
oleum.html
http://www.api.org/story/
http://www.
http://www.pb
http://www.
classrooms.org/wnet/ext
pbs.org/wn
energy.org/
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energy_09/
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out1.html
p2b.html
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=U7bC
Pm-r3s8
The Curse of OIL
start at
Remember
7:37 Hydrofracking? What were some of the problems of hydrofracking?
Where there control systems in place for safety and contamination ?
Determine what the effects might be of a poorly-managed
oil industry enterprise.
·An oil pit belonging to Texaco now belongs to another company, Petro Ecuador.
·This company was supposed to clean up some of the oil pits; they have done a totally
ineffectual job.
·The water in the pits is tainted with crude oil, it is extremely polluted, and the native
population that bathes in the water is getting sick and having skin problems.
·The levels of the pollution in the water are off the charts according to the standards of the
Environmental Protection Agency
there has been a lot of debate and controversy surrounding the expansion of the oil industry
into protected lands in Alaska
http://www.adventure
sinenergy.org/Explora
tion-anddetermine
why environmentalists fear the consequences of expanding oil drilling into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Production/Restoratio
n-of-Offshorehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvIKV4vrZOQ&feature=related
Sites.html
http://vid
oil sands
eo.pbs.o
rg/video/
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in Canada
Synthetic Oil
·If time and temperature are all it takes to make oil, why can’t it be made by
humans?
·It can be and is made synthetically, but mostly just for research.
·The process of creating an oil-like substance in a laboratory is called pyrolysis.
·The amount of time it takes to make oil is decreased in the lab by increasing the
temperature. The only problem is, it takes more energy to create the oil than
energy the oil could provide.
The Journey
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/journey/index.html
The Science
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/science/index.html