Mobility & Oil

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Statement
Oil prices are going up and down.

Driving Force
We will run out of oil in 2100. Most of the world’s oil is located in Saudi Arabia, where they represent a amount of 25%. Where oil is relative cheap in the US most European people pay a lot of tax. The prices rise when the stock goes down.
Some reasons of getting a low stock are:

  • There are no new oil fields found in the last x amount of time
  • War, with the not-stable situation in the middle east the prices of oil are fluctuating.
  • Companies do it deliberate to make profit. Some clear real life examples are show by “Enron”. Enron which was the biggest energy delivery company in the US sometimes played the oil and business shares by closed their factory are creating a lack of oil, which resulted in higher prices.

With the following consumption (in barrels) each day you can images that we can simply not go on with the energy consumption we have today.

Image:http://www.beodom.com/assets/images/blog/peakoil/oil-consumption-by-area-million-barrels-1965-2006.jpg

The mobility of people will be less if the world run out of oil or if the prices are to high.