Page added on September 9, 2004
Can you imagine life without gasoline, diesel fuel or home heating fuel? A huge portion of our industrial and domestic infrastructure has depended upon the availability of petroleum fuels throughout all of the 20th century.
We heat many of our homes and workplaces, drive our automobiles, and propel our trucks, trains, buses, agricultural machines, ships and aircraft on liquid petroleum products. We also derive many of our lubricants, cosmetics, medications, plastics, and fertilizers from petrochemicals. Virtually all of the products we buy have a dependancy upon the existence of petroleum. The food we buy in the supermarket needs to be planted, fertilized, harvested, processed, delivered and sold to customers arriving in their automobiles. All of that requires petroleum.
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