Hooked on Oil

1. What substance does our society use like a drug?

2. What mileage would we need to achieve to eliminate the need for Persian Gulf Oil?

3. From what is oil made?

4. When was the first commercial oil field developed?

5. How much is the current world demand for oil?

6. What oil-based products are used in farming?

7. How much of the land in Toronto is used by roads, parking lots, and service stations?

8. How much carbon dioxide is produced by vehicles?

9. What happened to oil prices in the early 1980's when new reserves were found?

10. What was the expectation for accidents when the pipeline was built to Valdez?

11. As we ship more and more oil, what can we expect to happen?

12. How much did Exxon spend on the attempted clean-up of the Exxon Valdez spill?

13. Why are oil spills so hard to cope with?

14. What is the biggest source of oil spills?

15. How much oil is spilled or dumped by ships each year?

16. What might be the largest threat to our water supply?

17. What oil project is threatening the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?

18. How is half of the world's oil production used?

19. How has one North Vancouver company reduced the use of new oil?

20. What mileage has been achieved by several car manufacturers?

21. Why aren't these fuel efficient vehicles popular?

22. At our current consumption, how soon will we begin to run out of oil?