1. The Dangers of Oil! By: Taylor Cagle & Chris Clemmer

3. 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill In 2010 there was a huge oil leak.. BP and its contractors missed and ignored warning signs prior to the massive oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, showing an "insufficient consideration of risk" and raising questions about the know-how of key personnel, a group of technical experts concluded. Those hazards included several tests that indicated the cement at the bottom of the hole would not be an effective barrier to an influx of oil and gas. More than a month before the disaster, BP lost drilling materials deep in the hole — a situation that hinted to the challenges of the well, but was not used to mitigate risks. The panel's interim findings — the second from an independent entity — are still in progress, but they echo much of what has been discovered in prior investigations by BP, lawmakers and the president's oil spill commission. There were many animals killed or more less suffocated by the oil. If our homes and our bodies were covered in oil 2 inches thick, wouldn’t you want some help too? BP is to blame. And it’s s shame that all these animals suffered and all these people were poisoned because of another person’s laziness.

4. Are you reliable? Here in America all you see are cars zooming all over the roads. Imagine someone taking your car for a whole day and having to rely on the two feet God gave you. It’s no surprise that our air pollution is as high as it is, considering that one liter of petrol is burned, 2.28kg of CO2, are produced, equivalent to 1268 liters of CO2 gas. We rely solely on getting to and from in a car. You may recall the scare we had a couple years back, when the price of gas shot sky high and there was a mass shortage of gas anywhere.

5. Gasoline Gasoline is made from crude oil. The crude oil is a black liquid called petroleum. This liquid contains hydrocarbons, and the carbon atoms in crude oil link together in chains of different lengths. The different chain lengths have progressively higher boiling points, so they can be separated out by distillation. This is what happens in an oil refinery, crude oil is heated and the different chains are pulled out by their vaporization temperatures.  If you took a 1,500-watt space heater and left it on full blast for a full 24-hour day, that's about how much heat is in a gallon of gas.  If it were possible for human beings to digest gasoline, a gallon would contain about 31,000 food calories-- the energy in a gallon of gasoline is equivalent to the energy in about 110 Mcdonalds hamburgers!

6. Diesel Petroleum diesel, also called petrodiesel, or fossil diesel is produced from the fractional distillon of crude oil. Diesel combustion exhaust is a major source of atmospheric soot and fine particles, which is a fraction of air pollution implicated in human heart and lung damage.