Oil Dependency

I learned that everyone depends on oil and with out having oil this economy leads to a conflict. Every where I go I see people struggle with their business, they lose clients and have to lay off their employees because there are no jobs available. I have seen many entrepreneurs closing their business because they cannot afford to maintain their workers nor their business. Many cities are losing their patience there have been riots because oil is being limited to certain amount of people and once every week. I have seen that things have been returning to normal but slowly, some people are beginning to get their jobs back and many business owners are beginning to have more different varieties and many other products in their stores. I believe that we can avoid another oil crisis by making sure that all the oil stations are secured and have no leaks. We can also start recycling and conserve more oil, and I believe that companies should depend less on oil. I think that the community should contribute and recycle more often and also people should not depend on their cars as much and should start using public transportation more often. People should also unplug any electrical objects that are not being used around the house or their office. Everyone should have learned a lesson by this oil crisis with the increase of prices and the decrease of supplies, and they should do their best to avoid another oil crisis.

A Captain of a cargo ship

This oil crisis is affecting everyone including me. I’m the captain of a cargo ship and business has increased dramatically, I had to let go some of my best workers because we haven’t had work for weeks. We have many delays with the cargo because we cannot transport them to their exact location, we have to unload and load in different places because many docks are closed down causing me to spend more money transporting the good to different places. This oil spill is affecting the entire community because many people are now unemployed; fishermen are not able to fish, the tourist are leaving, restaurants are closing down, there are no seafood being sold. All the marine animals are affected many are dying because of all the oil in the water, many animals depend on plankton and with out it other sea creatures cannot eat causing them to die of starvation.

OIL DEPRESSION!

I believe that many companies depend on oil because it’s needed to transport goods all over the world. Every one depends on oil because with out it our life would be so much complicated, we need to have food and water transported. Also people need to travel and use their cars and heavy machinery daily and with out oil the percentage on unemployment will increase dramatically. There are countries over the world that are destroying their cities causing riots because of the decrease in oil and the increase in prices of certain amount of food products and fuel. I believe that the businesses that are mostly going to get affected and maybe forced to close down are the gas stations, NASA, Air force, air lines, MTA- public transportation and, also the local markets. I believe these businesses will get affected the most because they depend on oil the most, people will not be able to travel or use any sort of public transportation. Instead of driving across town or going to work people will have to walk. The market will also have a major effect on the entire community because with out no goods being transported people will not be able to buy their groceries or fresh foods at their local market they will have to go farther to a supermarket or a farmers market to get their fresh meat and fruit. Both rural areas and suburban areas will get affected because they wouldn’t be able to produce goods and also transport them. Some local businesses that I have seen around my community that have been affected are fast food restaurants, and local markets they have less products in the store and the prices are more expensive. I have seen that many people have been affected and people are continuing to lose their jobs. The actions that we are taking to become more self sustainable are that we are going less to the market and we travel less and don’t waist food. I get myself from one place to another usually in car but when I cant I depend on public transportation either the bus or the metro. Elasticity play a role I this economic crisis because markets and small businesses are losing customers people are going for the less expensive items, why buy a brand name product if the no brand taste the same. People are purchasing items in different stores; they look for the less expensive items available.

Locavore? Frankenfood? What Are Those?!

i found this article interesting because i cannot not believe that we have a food shortage on fresh meat, fruit & vegetables. i was surprised because i tought that most of the food that we have in our local super markets were shiped from California. this oil shortage is affecting everyone all over the world because people are not able to travel as much and many goods and services cannot be trasported to other counties. its affecting mostly local markets because they are not getting their fresh items daily. this affects the entire community because since their is not enough fresh food being transported people go to different super markets to find their foods. also the prices are going increasing because the amount of the product decreases. this will affect my family because we go to the market every week and knowing that our daily items are missing we wont know what to do, because my mom is always buying fresh dairy products and we cannot live with out our daily nutrients and vitamins. i think that this is a big shock for the whole world because people are not willing to travel thousands of miles just for fresh fruit or fresh meat. the only right thing to do is to go to any local farmers market and buy as many food as possible so you wont have to travel each day.

Living Resources

well i think that if the airplain flights were to be canceled there would be many problems all over the worls because people will have to find different ways to travel. traveling in car or train will take more time to get to your destination, and you cannot not transport many things on a car or train. if all the gas station were to close down, it will make our lives impossible. if we didnt have gas, we cannot transport goods and services to other countires and we will run out of food and water. everyone will have to walk where ever they go because we will not be able to use any type of transportation. with out any goods being transported we will die because we need water and food to survive. we also need electrcity because if we didnt have no power no goods will be made and people will have no jobs. with out no jobs theres no money, and with out money you cannot fulfil your unlimited needs.

Supply & Demand!

Supply is what are you willing to sell in order to sastisfy your customers, and at what price are they willing to buy your goods.

Demand is what people decide what they want to buy and at what price they are willing to buy it for.

Something interesting and surprising about the quiz was that i found out that many different countries produce oil and i found it surprising because the countires are very small and have little population but yet they still produce and consume oil. something interesting was that even dough the oil productions decrease we still have oil in the ground.

Uses of Oil.

we use oil on a daily basis, i was suprised to know that we use 180 million gallon of oil per day. every where we go there are products made out of oil from plactics, rubber, gasoline, clothes, detergent, even the paint that we use in our homes. the bottles that we use to drink and the plastic containers for the garbage have petro chemicals which are found in oil. we use oil daily from house hold appliances to factories that use oil and cars that burn fuel and also cars that use bio disel and public transportation that use disel fuel.