Oil Crisis and its impact
Oil Crisis and its impact
The international oil prices have a direct impact on the Indian economy as the country imports 80 percent of its crude requirements. A rise in global oil prices by $ 10 per barrel would reduce India's economic growth by 0.2 percentage points and also affect the country's current account deficit. India imports three quarters of its annual oil and gas requirements, with the Middle East and North Africa regions contributing to a substantial chunk of it. India's import bills amount to $ 18 billion.
Global oil prices have almost doubled in the past one year. The ongoing political unrest in Libya, a major oil exporter and OPEC member, has disrupted supplies and pushed up crude prices further.
Effects of increased oil price;
It is not just oil prices that rise. The cost of food rises as well, partly because oil is used in many ways in growing and transporting food and partly because of the competition from biofuels for land, sending land prices up. The cost of shipping goods of all types rises, since oil is used in nearly all methods of transports. The cost of materials that are made from oil, such as asphalt and chemical products, also rises.
If the cost of oil rises, it tends to raise the cost of other fossil fuels. The cost of natural gas extraction tends to rises, since oil is used in natural gas drilling and in transporting water for fracking. Because of an over-supply of natural gas in the US, its sales price is temporarily less than the cost of production. This is not a sustainable situation. Higher oil costs also tend to raise the cost of transporting coal to the destination where it is used.
High oil prices don’t go away, except in recession The oil that is available now tends to be expensive to extract because it is deep under the sea, or near the North Pole, or needs to be “fracked,” or is thick like paste, and needs to be melted. We haven’t discovered cheaper substitutes, either, even though we have been looking for
The international oil prices have a direct impact on the Indian economy as the country imports 80 percent of its crude requirements. A rise in global oil prices by $ 10 per barrel would reduce India's economic growth by 0.2 percentage points and also affect the country's current account deficit. India imports three quarters of its annual oil and gas requirements, with the Middle East and North Africa regions contributing to a substantial chunk of it. India's import bills amount to $ 18 billion.
Global oil prices have almost doubled in the past one year. The ongoing political unrest in Libya, a major oil exporter and OPEC member, has disrupted supplies and pushed up crude prices further.
Effects of increased oil price;
It is not just oil prices that rise. The cost of food rises as well, partly because oil is used in many ways in growing and transporting food and partly because of the competition from biofuels for land, sending land prices up. The cost of shipping goods of all types rises, since oil is used in nearly all methods of transports. The cost of materials that are made from oil, such as asphalt and chemical products, also rises.
If the cost of oil rises, it tends to raise the cost of other fossil fuels. The cost of natural gas extraction tends to rises, since oil is used in natural gas drilling and in transporting water for fracking. Because of an over-supply of natural gas in the US, its sales price is temporarily less than the cost of production. This is not a sustainable situation. Higher oil costs also tend to raise the cost of transporting coal to the destination where it is used.
High oil prices don’t go away, except in recession The oil that is available now tends to be expensive to extract because it is deep under the sea, or near the North Pole, or needs to be “fracked,” or is thick like paste, and needs to be melted. We haven’t discovered cheaper substitutes, either, even though we have been looking for