Can We Live Without Crude Oil?

Can we live without the products of crude oil?

Can we live without crude oil? Crude oil is a quintessential product that we use in our day to day lives, without crude oil sports would not be as safe and accessible to people of all ages, social gatherings would not make people feel as if they were different, medicine would not be as advanced, and transportation would not be as simple as it is now. Crude oil might be a harm to the environment but that does not mean we should banish it as a whole, it is true that there are many alternatives on the energy side of things, but if we were to return to a time where crude oil was not as important as it is at the moment the human race as a whole would not be able to survive and nevertheless do the
To get these products the natural crude oil goes through a rigorous process of refining and extracting, to extract the oil scientists and geologists must first find an area that they believe is rich in oil as the process is extremely difficult and very expensive, the process only works from time to time. It begins by digging a hole to first reach the desired level (this can vary as sometimes oil extraction companies extract the oil from the ocean instead of straight out of the land), once it is reached a pipe is placed into the hole and the oil is pumped off into a storage facility or straight into a refinery. To refine the oil they use a process known as fractional distillation, this separates the oil into one of its many different forms (such as: gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, etc.) by heating it at various different temperatures that are normally in a specific increment so that one or more of the different substances inside of the oil begin to vaporize. This vapor will then be transferred to a condenser so that the substance can be purified. As stated previously, oil can be used to create
However, if humans continue to use the by-products of crude oil (at least until the year 2050) nothing will change and life will carry on as it should. One of the few repercussions crude oil has on our lives is it’s environmental damage, however according to the University of Calgary (Fedchko, Hanania, Heffernan, Jensen, Lloyd, Stenhouse, Toor, and Donev 2017) “Approximately 95% percent of the primary energy in the world comes from fuels like oil, coal and natural gas (all of which except nuclear fuels produce extensive greenhouse gasses when used).” this demonstrates how if look at the bad side of every other primary energy source we currently use we can show that they all have negative effects on the atmosphere, and even nuclear power has negative effects on the environment, Chernobyl is a major example of what nuclear power plants, when mistreated, can do to the environment surrounding