Crude Awakining

Did you know tires, tennis rackets, trash bags, and toothpaste are made from oil? Oil is the most important trade in the world today. Some things we need to live are drugs ( prescribed), Detergents, and fertilizers. Saudi Arabia produces a lot of oil and just one barrel of oil is about 42 gallons. Another place to get oil is from the OPEC countries. The OPEC countries contain of the countries   Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. The OPEC countries control the Persian golf region. Did you know oil provides 40 percent of the worlds energy. Surprisingly the U.S is only 4 percent of the world’s population but takes up 25 percent of the world’s oil supply.

OPEC countries

OPEC Logo

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One Response to “Crude Awakining”

  1.   margaret Says:
    January 24th, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    Hey! That was great and very informational! The part about tooth paste was gross, i might not ever use it again, but that would be even grosser!

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