Oil In The Late 1800s

In 1920s and 1930s, oil became a big boom in Texas. Roustabouts came from all over Texas. Oil could be made out of gasoline, natural gas and kerosene. Let’s talk about Texas Oil and social change in Texas. I’ve chosen to talk about minotersin west Texas, coogle in parts of Texas, and the divorce rates.

Black gold or otherwise known as petroleum, was a great impact and change to certain places and created a new source of fuel for rapid trading and industrialization. It changed the face of Texas after the Texas oil boom had occurred in 1901. Saudi Arabia is probably one of the first things that you think of when you think of oil and their discovery of oil would change Middle eastern trading forever. Another important part of the oil history is Edwin Drake and the first oil well in America. Oil was in extreme abundance that it came down to 3 cents a barrel. Petroleum has grown around the world and impacted us in a big way with traveling easily and trading with others.

In the 1900s drove 15,000 oil companies when they first discovered oil in the spindletop texas.There were a lot of benefits of this discovery like higher pay for a lot of the workers, Better football teams and better growth in a lot of their universities. There were a lot of disadvantages to this discovery like in ector texas was 23 times the amount of the national average. Oil was the only way for the future with entrepreneurs showing up all over the U.S region.This discovery changed texas future for ever.

Oil has created new opportunities such as college for people who want to or need to have for their jobs. People now have a better chance of going to college than they use to. The legislature had given the two schools UT and Texas A&M two million acres of land. When oil came into town in 1923 it was a booming business. Now that the oil had came into town the oil and land produced 4.4 billion dollars for the university of UT and Texas A&M. Oil money from land grants helped develop higher education levels in Texas. Overall oil has made a huge impact on school in a great way.

Oil Pollution in Earth’s oceans is a tremendous problem the environment, organisms, and humans are facing today. Pollution from petroleum products are extremely toxic to many marine organisms, including microorganisms that are the support of the aquatic food chain. Oil is a substance that can disperse under and across the surface of water for thousands of meters. Shorelines are left covered with this oil and it can be hard to remove (Friedland). The United States depends enormously on oil. On average, the United States uses 793 million gallons of oil per day, with a cost of $2 billion dollars each day. It is the world’s biggest oil consumer. The combined oil consumption of Japan, Russia, China, and India are far way less than that of the U.S (“The Great Invisible Discussion Guide”). Burning oil produces a big amount of greenhouse gases. It is “the largest single fuel of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S” (“The Great Invisible Discussion Guide”). Having dependence on oil can have significant costs, including an increased risk of oil spills. One of the biggest oil leaks occurred in 2010. It happened in an offshore platform on a BP operation in the Gulf of Mexico (Friedland).

By the early 1900’s, everybody was on the search for what was considered black gold, and they would do whatever it took to get a taste of it, as it could turn a person into a millionaire in an instance. It wasn’t until 1901 before Oil(black gold) was found in Spindletop, and with it, Texas would would never be the same. With oil being discovered in all sorts of different places, people started going to these towns and creating what is called boomtowns. These boomtowns started popping up everywhere, and every once in awhile, a few lucky wildcatters(Someone in search of oil) and prospectors would become millionaires. The oil also brought many spinoff jobs with it, such as roadside diners and places to stay. There was so much oil in Texas that

It is no secret that oil has revolutionized the way we live in our world. Its importance was birthed during the nineteenth century with the invention of the incandescent lamp, using oil as a source of lighting. At the same time, however, the internal combustion engine revolutionized transportation in peace and war. Henry Ford and other early automobile manufacturers became the new heroes, and Winston Churchill ordered the British navy to turn from coal to oil just in time for the outbreak of World War I. The navy played only a secondary part in the war, but another of Churchill’s favorite, the tank, was a key element in breaking through the trenches of uninhabited land. There were far more horses than trucks in combat when the fighting began

A major problem in the world, especially the U.S. is oil spills, they have been spilled into the oceans are being very harmful to water life plants and animals. In addition birds and other air breathing mammals also get poisoned, as they go to bathe themselves sit in the oil and that poison them. Oil is one of the most used natural resource that people use, and oil is used by a lot of the population of the world. Oil is a fossilization made up from plants and animals very many years ago, it takes many years for oil to be formed, oil can be located both in the ground or under the ocean floor, after the oil is removed giant ships called oil tankers, ship the oil to the other countries. In addition birds and other air breathing mammals also get

Oil benefited the U.S exceedingly in many financial ways. It all begun one day at Spindletop where petroleum spilled all over the Hamilton brothers. Not only did oil impact the nation financially, but where most oil rigs were, many social changes occurred. Three of the most important were, possible higher \rates, colleges making billions off of granted lands, and Mexican-Americans and african Americans gaining jobs.

Oil is a value of a lot of people in this world, it can take many years for it to be formed, not to mention that it's very expensive resource to remove from the ground and the ocean floor. Next when oil spills it covers the surface getting thinner and thinner until it looks like a rainbow, this rainbow is called the Sheene. The oil spills are very dangerous for marine life, either making it so the fur of the animal is no longer able to repel liquids or making it so they can't float or keep warm. Similarly Other animals (such as birds) may ingest the oil in the water and get very sick. The first step is to contain the oil and make it stop spreading, once we do that the damage the oil can do is more minor. The next step is to scare off the unharmed

The discovery of oil has led to an abundance of new opportunities that have helped people create new inventions with the biggest being the automobile. Major corporations have arisen from “The impact of oil derived, in large part, from its attractiveness as an energy-dense, easily deliverable source of fuel for transportation.” Oil is sometimes coined the term black gold because of its value. Corporations like Chevron have made billions of dollars in the oil industry. With the rise of oil, the destruction of the environment has also become a serious issue in some parts of the world. Oil spills that have taken place in the gulf and in the forests have had a huge impact on both the people and wildlife that have lived around these affected areas. Black streaks of oil are seen in the sand in some beaches still to this day and. But these are just some of the major environmental disasters oil companies like Chevron are responsible for. Chevron has also made an impact on the environment around its refineries, and it is not a positive impact. The waste that comes out of these refineries is dumped into the ocean, rivers, and these toxic waste sites severely hurt the environment in the process. One of the biggest issue the company faces, is with the country of Ecuador where a lawsuit was filed against Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron in 2001. The corporation was blamed for the mass pollution across the Amazon after the company left the refineries with mass traces of toxic waste

Oil Spills disturb the environment and produce a threat to the animals living in that area. Both ships and refineries release oil into the rivers and oceans which leads to the damage and death of plants and animals

As the inevitable end of conventional oil draws closer and closer to becoming a reality, there are many fears that the absence of such a relied on resource brings. Many of these fears are concerned with the possibility that the end of oil will cause immense negative impacts and cripple the current infrastructures that rely heavily on oil. Although this is a common fear, the negative effects that accompany oil in general significantly outweighs those that may arise as oil becomes more scarce. For years the extraction, processing, and consumption of petroleum products have caused an immense amount of damage to ecosystems and the environment as a whole. With the depletion of oil, the damages that are being done can begin to be reversed, and our planet will be able to replenish itself from the damage that has been caused. Furthermore, the need for an alternative fuel source for transportation and other various uses will drive engineers and scientists to discover and implement new technologies. This essay will touch briefly on just a few of the benefits that the end of conventional oil will have on our world.

Oil is the most used resource on the planet. The world humans have built is an empire built on oil. It is what has allowed us to grow as a population at an exponential rate over the past 100 years or so.

Oil is defined as “any of numerous unctuous combustible substances that are liquid or can be liquefied easily on warming, are soluble in ether but not in water, and leave a greasy stain on paper or cloth” (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary), but the United States of America knows it better as their source of transportation. Oil has many uses, but oil main use is for fuel in motor vehicles. Oil is found thousands of miles below the earth’s crust and is drilled for in many locations. When oil is found after it is drilled it called crude oil (existing in a natural state and unaltered by cooking or processing) (Merriam Webster Online Dictionary). Crude oil is not usable in motor vehicles so it has to be refined. Once the oil has been