Argumentative Essay On Oil In The United States

The world, in which we are living, is being built and developed using much oil ever since the year of 1950. Many of a time, the food we eat, the cars we drive, the electricity we use need oil in order to be delivered, to operate and to be produced. Oil can have negative effects on economy as well, because oil can lead to unpredictable situations such as the decreases of oil prices recently or the peak oil crisis in July 2008. Therefore, I strongly agree that we should not heavily rely on oil as the primary energy resource. On the one hand, oil is the cause that leads to many economic and political problems. Firstly, The United States is the country that consumes the largest amount of oil in the world, approximately 6.97 billion barrels of

However, this might be a daunting task for every of us. “Governments throughout the world spend astronomical sums to subsidize coal, oil and gas, and heavy sponsorship of the worldwide petroleum industry is slowing the shift to renewable energy” (Viseth & Digges, 2015). These subsidies is to keep the oil prices at a reasonable level, so that consumers can buy them. These subsidies, on the one hand, is very necessary for everybody, especially the poor people who want to buy oil and gas for daily living. However, these subsidies are not a good idea for the development of new renewable resources, because these help to keep the prices of oil and gas low, making it harder for people feel convinced to buy the newly-developed resources. Despite of that, there are still scientists who are developing and testing alternatives to oil such as wind energy, solar energy which are clean, renewable and

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