The True Story of Oil...The power that holds the fate of the world.

5 POINT

The True Story of Oil...The power that holds the fate of the world.

1. The misunderstanding of "dinosaur remains":

Many people still believe that oil is caused by the remains of dinosaurs, but the proven geological truth is that most of it is caused by the tiny remains of ancient marine plankton and algae that have died and sunk to the bottom of the ocean under the right pressure and temperature for millions of years, so we do not refuel from T. rex, but we are refueling from tiny marine plants and animals.

Reference Source: National Geographic - Petroleum: The conversion of organic matter

2. Standard Oil: The Empire That the Government Must Order Smashed:

John D. Rockefeller once dominated 90% of the American oil industry, becoming richer and more powerful than the government. The horrors of this monopoly forced the U.S. Supreme Court to "crack the company" into 34 subsidiaries, which later became the giants we are familiar with today, ExxonMobil and Chevron.

Reference Source: History.com - Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States

3. 1973 War: When Closing the Valve Is a Lethal Weapon:

The incident in which the OPEC group decided to stop sending oil to countries that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur war proved that the real power lies not in the number of tanks, but in the control of energy resources. That crisis caused prices to soar 4 times in the blink of an eye and changed the global economic structure forever.

Reference source: Office of the Historian - Oil Embargo, 1973-1974

4. The "Tar Balls" puzzle on Thai Beach:

Black oil stains that often hit Thai beaches are often suspected of spills on pipelines, but chemical fingerprinting analysis found that most of them were caused by the "smuggling of oil" of large cargo ships in the middle of the sea that tried to reduce waste disposal costs properly.

Reference Source: Marine and Coastal Resources Research Centre - Inspection of Oil Stains and Bitumen Cubes

5. The postponed Peak Oil Era:

The theory that oil will run out of the world by the year 2000 was proven wrong, because new drilling technologies such as Fracking (high-pressure water injection to extract oil from shale) have led us to find huge new reserves. The challenge is now not "oil will run out," but "how can we phase it out before the earth overheats?"

Reference Source: IEA - World Energy Outlook 2025 / 2026: The shifting energy landscape

"Oil doesn't just provide energy...But it rewards those who possess and punishes those who do not have it. "

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