19
09
2006
addicted to oil
Posted by: woodchurchscience in chemistry, earth materials, industrial chem, ks4, warren, y10
the discovery channel charts the rise of the oil industry. here’s a (very brief) excerpt:
the united states has about 5 percent of the world’s population, but the 21 million barrels of crude oil that it consumes each day amounts to nearly a quarter of the world’s usage.
numbers, however, don’t convey the full magnitude of america’s dependence upon oil.
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