Most Americans don’t think much about our huge dependency upon oil — until there’s a problem. But we are addicted to oil. Our world runs on oil, usually with little trouble. But sometimes there are tremendous problems.
The current oil news centers on a big oil well catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. But until then, who in the general public thought much about the fact that there were roughly 3,000 other oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico producing needed oil with no big problems?
In 1989, the troubling spill from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker off Alaska got worldwide attention. But there is no “news” now as thousands of oil tank ships deliver oil — with no trouble.
There are many thousands of oil wells, in our country and throughout the world, that are having no trouble responding to our thirst for oil, for our cars, manufacturing, heating and countless other uses.
But remember, some years ago, when periodic Arab oil embargo threats disrupted our whole economy?