Why Is Saving Fossil Fuel Important?
First of all because it is a limited finite resource, at least in our lifetime. It takes millions of years to create oil, natural gas, or coal so we won’t be renewing that resource for a few millenia. A Shell scientist called Hubbert predicted that we would eventually reach a peak of oil production in the world and after that, no matter how much exploration was done by oil companies, the available oil will start declining. Some people believe we may have hit that peak already.
The other reason is because we use it for so many things. Oil is used to make gasoline and diesel, but have you thought about the other products we use oil and natural gas for, plastic like polyethelene, styrene, acrylics, carpeting, roofing material, roads, rubber in tires and shoes, fertilizer, lubricants, plastic pipe in house plumbing, plastic used in computer boards, fabrics like nylon, even household detergent, and if a product isn’t made directly from oil it is probably made with the help of oil for shipping or supplying energy in its manufacture.
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to maintain things the way they are. Since it’s impossible, and fossil fuel will run out anyway, we need alternative energy sources making Fossil feul obsolete.
There is only a limited amount of fossil fuels left. So, if we waste them there wont be any of the fuels in the future. Oil is the most important fossil fuel because it gets made into gasoline.