ESL Lesson 1
Oil in Our Every Day Life
ESL Lesson 2
The History of Mining
ESL Lesson 3
Economic growth
ESL Lesson 4
Delivery Systems
ESL Lesson 5
Cities and Population Movement
ESL Lesson 6
Recycling
ESL Lesson 7
Rubber
ESL Lesson 8
Farming
Three Years Oil and You
ESL
Let’s Talk about Future Trends,
Predictions and Possibilities of Oil
Oil is a subject filled with big words that even native English speakers don’t understand, so I have designed this ESL class into easy to read simplified English, for anyone on this planet to study from. Anyone whose English is good enough to say “I drive a car”, “I bought vegetables at the market”, “I am cooking dinner” “I go to the store” will understand the main point. Natural gas and oil are now a finite, quantifiable (measurable), limited commodity (product). The following pages will explain that some oil wells in the world are past the half way point in production and each day from now on will give less oil, so many oil fields and wells are declining that new oil being found in our planet is not enough to replace what is being used daily.
I leave the politics out of the subject, presenting only documented facts to allow anyone to see the future. The switch to bio-diesel and ethanol has begun. The first part of this compilation explains why the change is taking place, the last part explains what crops will be used and the way forward for these new industries. If you are interested in the subject of oil, want to see some possible investment opportunities or want to be in the right place at the right time. I present to you a crystal ball, so please look into the near future. Future Trends in Oil. Predictions, Possibilities and You.
This is a compendium, a compilation, a collection of articles, theories and ideas about our worlds oil supply and how the world population (number of people) is effected by the price of crude oil. Throughout the text I use parenthesis ( ) next to difficult words with an easier to understand definition for English learners. We use oil in every part of our societies, for delivery of goods, to run our factories, and allow business itself to expand (become larger). Without oil and the products made from it, business can not go on, expand or even remain at the same level (stay the same) for longer that three of four days planet wide.
From the Industrial Revolution up to now we have built a system entirely dependent (100% reliant) on one substance (thing) to power our planet, oil. Sadly no secondary system is in place. World population has grown from 750 million (750,000,000) to 6.5 billion (6,500,000,000) with its use. We use it in machines that plow, plant and harvest vast (very large and wide) fields and at over 100 kmh/ 60 mph deliver food to stores where people that live far away from stores drive to do their shopping. Mining machines dig and separate (break into different parts) metals from the earth that will become finished products. Global (worldwide) shipping now allows us to have strawberries in the middle of winter from a different continent separated by oceans. Containers on ships, boxes in planes and freezers on wheels all use the same substance (material) to get products to waiting customers, oil. Commerce (business) is at light speed, and we all have grown up expecting that the economies of this world will expand forever. Expand forever because oil is cheap and abundant (a lot of something). It has been expected that there will be jobs in 30 years, so banks give loans to buy homes expecting the ever growing economies will provide jobs so the loan can be paid back. But what if this once infinite, inexhaustible (can never finish) cheap resource is suddenly finite, has a limit and is no longer cheap? What if the supply pumped from the ground is not enough supply everyone on earth that needs it at once? This issue (topic) is not about ”running out” of oil, it never will be, the issue is about not having enough oil to keep our economies running and forever expanding with 6.5 billion people on earth, and growing. Remember 96% of transportation uses a crude oil product.
This text is completely free to use, distribute, reproduce and re-edit. I ask that you give credit to the authors of the articles included here and to my self. Global problems require global solutions. Each and every person has ideas and solutions to solve problems, now the internet allows all of us to link together. Feel free to pass along and spread this information about bio-fuels and oil depletion to the world, find out what other people think.
After reading this ESL class about oil, natural gas, bio-diesel and ethanol, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions I would like to hear them. The author David DuByne can be contacted at daveseslbiofuel@gmail.com
Sincerely,
David DuByne
Feburary 13, 2007