In modern societies, developed society, developing and under developed, fossil fuels take an importance place in remains the stability of society. The Developed society need fossil fuel because it preserve the way of life, remain competitive on the global arena. The developing and under-developed need fossil fuels to increase the standard of living, increase wealth and competitiveness. As we known, fossil fuels are limited and when all the societies (developed, developing and under developed) need fossil fuel the consequence is taking fossil fuels from each other by many ways like coercion, persuasion or trading. For example, U.S.A. imports 55% from OPEC (organization of petroleum producing countries) countries, 29% from Persian Gulf countries (EIA, p1). See that USA and
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