Life_Without_Petroleum

Life Without Petroleum The world's petroleum supply has run out due to it's inefficient use by consumers. The nonrenewable resource that once made up almost all materials and products no longer exists. Petroleum was the source of petrochemicals. Petrochemicals include plastics, alcohol, medicines, sweeteners, perfumes, dyes, and explosives, just to name a few (ChemCom, 175). Although wood, hydropower, coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear fission are other alternate forms of energy, petroleum was the most widely used source (ChemCom, 191). Fortunately, scientists and chemist have found alternative sources to petroleum to serve as a replacement to petrochemicals and energy sources Sixty percent of petroleum usage went towards transportation. Cars are the main consumers of such amounts. This is because cars need oil and oil is a product of petroleum. This problem can be solved by extracting a substance called kerogen from oil shale, which is a form of rock. Kerogen is partially formed oil and decomposes into a material like crude oil when heated. The only disadvantage to this form of oil is that in order to be extracted, huge amounts of shale must be processed in order to get only a fractional amount of Kerogen. Vehicles are also being converted into dual-fuel petroleum, coal, petrochemicals, oil, energy, chemcom, sources, produced, being, alternative, 226, through, solar, problem, natural, kerogen, gas, cost, biomass, another, world's, wood, vehicles, using, usage, time, supply, source, shale, production, power, plants, order, option, nuclear, need