A soon to be world’s largest oil producer

 Undoubtedly oil plays an essential role in the world’s economy nowadays. The oil can be used as a natural resource to drive an engine and also used as an investment. An increasing number of populations contribute to a demanding in oil consumption. Therefore, this raises concern about the depletion of the finite reserve of oil as it takes hundreds years to extract oil from underground.

The BBC News Business article “US to become 'world's biggest oil producer’” reports that an advance in the US of extraction oil from shale rock gives hope about the finite natural resources to the US citizen. International Energy Agency (IEA) expects that the US will depend on its own energy resource by around 2035. However, this new discovery of the oil source makes some people worry about a natural disaster, which results from drilling oil under the ground, and political issue as the US may less concern about the Middle East, who is the major oil producer at the moment.

As a fast-growing number of world’s population, the natural resources including oil are forecasted to be acceleratedly depleted. There may not be a sufficient resource remained by the end of this century. Therefore, people try to find an alternative source to solve this problem. However, I personally think that the best way to cope with an energy concerned issue is to stimulate people’s awareness of an over consumption of the natural resources. It takes a little bit amount of time for man to use up natural resources, but it takes centuries for the nature to reproduce them. I do believe that we can survive without consuming too many resources as we have done these days. As we can see in the traditional way of life during an ancient time, the ancestor can adapt themselves to the nature and live with the nature by not using oil, gas, and other resources that we just discovered recently.

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Reference

US to become 'world's biggest oil producer’. (2012, November 12). BBC News Business. Retrieved November 13, 2012 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20304848