What are the consequences of petroleum use?
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1 pollution 2) depletion 3) environment consequences 4) no fuel for future generations
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EDUCATIONSCIENCEENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCEWHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS?
WHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS?
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Environmental Science For Dummies
By Alecia M. Spooner
What you know as oil is actually called petroleum or crude oil and may exist as a combination of liquid, gas, and sticky, tar-like substances. Oil and natural gas are cleaner fuels than coal, but they still have many environmental disadvantages.
The secret to fossil fuels’ ability to produce energy is that they contain a large amount of carbon. This carbon is left over from living matter — primarily plants — that lived millions of years ago. Oil and natural gas are usually the result of lots of biological matter that settles to the seafloor, where the hydrocarbons (molecules of hydrogen and carbon), including methane gas, become trapped in rocks.
Petroleum sources are usually small pockets of liquid or gas trapped within rock layers deep underground (often under the seafloor). Extracted crude oil is refined and used to manufacture gasoline (used in transportation) and petrochemicals (used in the production of plastics, pharmaceuticals, and cleaning products).
EDUCATIONSCIENCEENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCEWHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS?
WHAT IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS?
RELATED BOOK
Environmental Science For Dummies
By Alecia M. Spooner
What you know as oil is actually called petroleum or crude oil and may exist as a combination of liquid, gas, and sticky, tar-like substances. Oil and natural gas are cleaner fuels than coal, but they still have many environmental disadvantages.
The secret to fossil fuels’ ability to produce energy is that they contain a large amount of carbon. This carbon is left over from living matter — primarily plants — that lived millions of years ago. Oil and natural gas are usually the result of lots of biological matter that settles to the seafloor, where the hydrocarbons (molecules of hydrogen and carbon), including methane gas, become trapped in rocks.
Petroleum sources are usually small pockets of liquid or gas trapped within rock layers deep underground (often under the seafloor). Extracted crude oil is refined and used to manufacture gasoline (used in transportation) and petrochemicals (used in the production of plastics, pharmaceuticals, and cleaning products).
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