Wow, pretty sad that these spills are so bad that the Exxon-Valdez spill doesn’t even make the list. At roughly 37,000 tonnes it was just a baby spill compared to these ones. Great video Simon! Keep up the good work.
Also shows the value of propaganda.. Guessing that's also why it didn't even get an honorable mention. Some people don't want the public to know exactly how small it really was
Agreed.... Exxon Valdez and the ones at the English channel changed the rules for crude oil and products tankers so much. Small quantity, but major impact.
The program is made for Americans. If it doesn't happen in America, it doesn't matter. Oil spill in Mexico, who cares? It's little surprise that the Mexicans are profiting from flooding the US with drugs.
That was very interesting, thanks. As a suggestion, maybe a future video could compare the amount of oil spilt by these accidents to the amount of oil spilt due to the Battle of the Atlantic and the Pacific campaigns during WW2. For example the USS Arizona is still leaking oil to this day.
Talking about Torrey Canyon and Amoco Cadiz makes my hair raise on my chin because I lived those events at the sea shore being an inhabitant of French Brittany. Tanyo and Erika are other smaller events still painfully vivid in my memory
I accidentally knocked over an open 60ml bottle of Beard Blaze Basic Blaze. It was the most tragic and devastating oil spill to ever take place in my household. The crisis that unfolded after the loss of the entire local supply of Beard Blaze had far reaching consequences as the golden age of my beard came to an abrupt and violent end. A state of emergency was declared. Recovery efforts began immediately but were rendered futile by the absorbent properties of the region within which the spill occurred. As the few remaining healthy patches began to succumb, an international relief effort was launched. An agreement reached between the beard and a neighboring beard would see the formation of a combined fund in the hopes of expediting the process of replacing the lost oil, with the added benefit of a significantly reduced cost per milliliter for both parties. The question is, will the shipment complete its journey to the other side of the world before it is too late? Only time will tell.
I picture this spill happening on carpet, which is quite absorbent depending on it's makeup. The Blaze I'm sure doesn't evaporate quickly like water. So surely the occasionally face dive rub on the carpet will transfer enough glorious juice to the beard to keep it from going full face fro till the shipment arrives.
I've been told that you can still dig down a foot or so on the beaches of Prince William Sound in Alaska and find oil from the March, 1989 spill caused by the Amoco Valdez.
The Amoco Cadiz sank near the French coast, not Alaska. You're talking about the Exxon Valdez and her sleeping captain. Also, there was that oil catastrophy that was caused by a tanker called "Prestige" which sank with its contents into the sea in November 2002 - after having been pulled away from the shore by spanish authorities, which didn't help but exacerbated the precarious situation by causing the oil to be washed upon a large area of the spanish coast, instead of it being concentrated in one place.
The Taylor oil spill isnt exactly small! A leak that started in 2004 and you said averages 200 barrels a day leaking out would be 1,241,000 barrels to date!! Also 200 barrels a day is only after efforts to slow it. So the real figure would be higher. Not small at all!
Probably going to have to update this list. There’s a oil tanker sitting the Red Sea, abandoned in 2017. Shit in the Middle East is preventing anyone from doing anything about it.
Makes you wonder what efforts have been put in to stem the leak from the 2004 one, considering it's still leaking, cos much like a speeding car heading for a crash, slowing it down is not stopping it...
One of things that the Deepwater Horizon disaster exposed was that, in addition to oil from the event itself, oil is constantly, naturally, seeping from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. . .
Regarding the Lakeview blowout. The blow out preventer (BOP) wasn't invented until 1922. So there's that...I'll also say shallow wells like this one are harder to control, even by today's standards.
Another major oil spill in 1969 off shore of Santa Barbara CA. It was a off shore oil well blow out and about 100,000 barrels of oil were spilled . It caused damage to the coast line killing kelp beds, krill and crustaceans that endangered Californian sea otters, sea lion, elephant seals , birds etc. Fed on so if the oil didn't kill out right thousands died of starvation. It the thrid largest ocean oil spill in US history after the Exxon Valdez and Deep water Horizon . But spill spread from Santa Barbara to down to Baja California in Mexico. In terms of loss of sea life ecological and shore line oil damage loss of tourism dollars it one of the worst ocean spills in US history.
My cousin is the captain of one of those tugboats spraying the BP rig. Speckled trout never have come back to the numbers they were before deep water horizon.
Some of the Torrey Canyon oil was dumped in a small quarry on the Chouet headland here in Guernsey in the Channel Islands, where it remains. Despite many attempts to rid the island of the oil have continued which have had only limited success. This continues to be an issue to with wild life (mainly pidgins) falling into the oil to this day.
Every time I see a news report or documentary about an oil spill I'm reminded of the classic Clarke & Dawe interview. Interviewer: So what happened in this case? Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the front fell off in this case, by all means, but it's very unusual. Interviewer: But Senator Collins why did the front of the ship fall off? Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well a wave hit it. Interviewer: A wave hit it? Bob Collins - Australian Senator: A wave hit the ship! Interviewer: Is that unusual? Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Oh yeah! At sea? Chance in a million
I was expecting the Deepwater Horizon spill to be on here; was not disappointed. Surprised the MV Wakashio oil spill of last year wasn't on this list. Especially given how sensitive the native flora and fauna of that island is
The Lake Peigneur disaster would be a good episode on some channel. No one even died. Accidentally poking a hole in a top of a salt mine under of lake went badly. Who could have guessed. It was spectacular and devastating.
I haven't knowingly bought anything from Exonn the Valdez sank in 1989. I haven't knowingly bought anything from BP since the Event Horizon in 2010. While I realize every oil company has had it's share of disasters but,for whatever reason, these 2 really ticked me off. Capt.Bob, SV ( Sailing Vessel) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl.6
Deepwater Horizon* no hate no spite just wanna say thats a noble choice you've made, but i cannot help myself so please don't be offended by my correction, because I am big fan of the movie... LOL Anyways the Event Horizon is a very underrated sifi Horror movie from 1997 starring Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne and definitely worth watching if you haven't watched it yet... oh and the event horizon is also known as the "rubicon" or "point of no return" at the edge of a waterfall or black hole...
@@thumpyloudfoot864 Lol... No offense taken, or ment. I'm aware of the various definitions of event horizon, but I remember being a kid and washing oil off of sea birds back in the late 60s,and early 70s. Guess the event horizon, brought that back to the fore,and effected many of my friends, not to mention our planet, kinda gets my back up. Merry Christmas ! Best to you, and your family. Capt.Bob, SV ( Sailing Vessel) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl
I didn't see one on the news I was working the area during the BP spill in the gulf and the I believe chevron spill in the river that lead to globals office dock in Lake Charles
Oh dear me that is horrible, especially deep water horizon. 🙁 - oil spills We drill for oil, none of it is spilled or wasted, no corners are cut. The environment remains in pristine condition! Win win! 🛢️🗝️🌊🐟🦈🐳
Deepwater Horizon was insane for those of us living in Louisiana, it was all over the news all day. It totally messed up the coast and a bunch of industries. Still shocked at how long it took them to cap that thing. Oil and our reliance on it is awful.
A gusher has long been the pop-culture shorthand for "Hoo, boy, we done got rich!" But actually, even in the early days it was/is still pretty much the worst thing that can happen -- even before anybody cared about pollution, there's the fire hazard (the pressure is from natural gas, can be ignited by the slightest spark), and the fact that ... the drill bit is solid,.and turned by steel pipe, and that drill string has to go somewhere for the oil to come out. So up to a mile of steel pipe goes into the air, and gravity is a harsh mistress. The derrickman up at the top that fits the top end of a new bit of pipe into the mechanism has a zipline to GTFO very far away from the rig, for exactly that reason. I'm from the center of the East Texas oilfield, the college I went to hosts the Oil Museum, and my nephew spent some time as a roughneck before marrying and starting his own handyman business.
Lol, like those in denial about the damage caused by “green energy”? Besides the fact that these areas have recovered pretty well, acting like fossil fuels are inherently evil shows a lack of understanding of the overall effect fossil fuels have. It’s a net positive.
Can you make a video on Star Trek and how Roddenberry was a f*ck or just how it became so detailed and the cornucopia of topics that it is now? I feel like out of the 18428 RUclips channels I’m subscribed to, side projects is the best venue for that. Please and thank you whistle boy :p)
I would have thought the Vector might have made the list. It was a tiny spill, but it costs thousands of lives on the Dona Paz en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Do%C3%B1a_Paz
Great work... Keep it up. But look further, oil spills in Nigeria and Russian fields and piping Systems are sind to be the worst currently Activision. Maybe worth investigating on that..
@@J3scribe Past performance doesn't guarantte future results. Some math and statistics shows even if the entire earth were hollow and filled with liquid oil (cheapest to extract) we'd use it all in a bit over 400 years. Clearly we have no where near that since it's mostly rock and iron. Not to mention in the 1970's prediction science was far less accurate than now, and wasn't much better than a few semi-educated guesses and a bunch of crystal balls. We will never run out of oil COMPLETELY, but it doesn't need to before shit hits the fan. Sure, there's shale oil probably under 2-3 miles of ocean and another 5-10 miles of rock under that that has a liquid-equivalent pool of maybe 1M barrels (that will get used up in a matter of minutes by the world economy, so you have to get to it and extract it quickly) all over the place. Now go get that when the price of oil is under $10,000 a barrel and try to still make a profit while making it usable (shale is energy intensive to make into liquid crude). Oh and do it before that 47 years is up so the economy doesn't crash in the meantime and the price of oil along with it (no profit= no point, energy companies don't run on compassion or pity, other than maybe that of their investors). Oh yeah, in the 1970's they were predicting PEAK oil, not total depletion worldwide (huge difference), and that came and went around 2011-2013 when the economy started to recover from the 2008 crash. Why do you think no new oil refineries have been built since the 1970's you mentioned? Mainly because there's no enough oil left to refine to recoup the cost of bulding a new refinery (just incremental upgrades that only make financial sense to implement when the price of refined fuel goes up 3-5x faster than inflation).
You do realise the Deepwater Horizon was an incident that occurred wholly due to American decisions? I know there has been a lot of anti British talk from ignorant Americans about how Britain is responsible (y'know, British Petroleum and all that), but at the time BP was just a brand name, the company was mainly US controlled.
There are 10,000 oil spills worse then Chernobyl. And don’t get me started on rare earth materials mining for batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Still think nuclear energy is bad?
Why jsnt attacking an oil tanker a war crime w how much environmental effects it has. I get it can be a good move bc it can cripple a force to not have fuel, but its not worth it to win a ruined world.
if you look at just these events featured in the Video, it's the reason i can't take "idiots with a car" seriosly when they try to counterargue about Lithium-BEV and how it's mined if you got no car, but a Bike etc. okay, but if you have one and care so much about the enviroment: why having a car? Why caring NOW but shruged at the terrible, car dependend infrastructur, driving a large gasguzzler and that Lithium is Mined in an Area where nothing lives, but's it's okay to drill for oil in a unique nature preserve? yeah, it's not great perfect how it's mined , but recyclable. Try that with Oil
Wow, pretty sad that these spills are so bad that the Exxon-Valdez spill doesn’t even make the list. At roughly 37,000 tonnes it was just a baby spill compared to these ones. Great video Simon! Keep up the good work.
Agreed! Fact is the oil from Exxon-Valdez is still bubbling up in places.
Also shows the value of propaganda..
Guessing that's also why it didn't even get an honorable mention. Some people don't want the public to know exactly how small it really was
I was also gonna mention the Exxon Valdez
Agreed.... Exxon Valdez and the ones at the English channel changed the rules for crude oil and products tankers so much. Small quantity, but major impact.
The program is made for Americans. If it doesn't happen in America, it doesn't matter. Oil spill in Mexico, who cares? It's little surprise that the Mexicans are profiting from flooding the US with drugs.
Got through watching a new Casual Criminalist, went back to the RUclips homepage, IMMEDIATELY see a new Sideprojects video. Love it.
Legend!
This one is tougher to watch
And here you are.
Legend.
The efforts to extinguish and cap the Kuwaiti oil wells would make a great Megaprojects vid.
I'm kind of surprised that you didn't mention the Exxon Valdez.
Or kalamazoo
I would have thought the Exon Valdez would have been among them. Spilled lots of oil in Cook Inlet.
Not by today's standards anymore, that was fairly minute and remote, with a half-assed attempt at a clean up
That was very interesting, thanks. As a suggestion, maybe a future video could compare the amount of oil spilt by these accidents to the amount of oil spilt due to the Battle of the Atlantic and the Pacific campaigns during WW2. For example the USS Arizona is still leaking oil to this day.
What about the Exxon Valdez tanker?
I was wondering the same thing
I thought that it would be one of the most significant examples. The environmental impact was extensive.
Can you please cover the history of The Thunderbirds?
It's a deadly, beautiful and incredible story.
Talking about Torrey Canyon and Amoco Cadiz makes my hair raise on my chin because I lived those events at the sea shore being an inhabitant of French Brittany. Tanyo and Erika are other smaller events still painfully vivid in my memory
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Everything that happened in Kuwait
2:20 - Chapter 2 - Lakeview gusher
3:25 - Chapter 3 - Deepwater horizon
5:25 - Chapter 4 - Ixtoc 1
7:00 - Chapter 5 - Atlantic empress
7:55 - Chapter 6 - Fergana valley
8:35 - Chapter 7 - Nowruz field platform
9:30 - Chapter 8 - ABT Summer
10:10 - Chapter 9 - Smaller spills
lole :D
I accidentally knocked over an open 60ml bottle of Beard Blaze Basic Blaze. It was the most tragic and devastating oil spill to ever take place in my household.
The crisis that unfolded after the loss of the entire local supply of Beard Blaze had far reaching consequences as the golden age of my beard came to an abrupt and violent end.
A state of emergency was declared. Recovery efforts began immediately but were rendered futile by the absorbent properties of the region within which the spill occurred.
As the few remaining healthy patches began to succumb, an international relief effort was launched. An agreement reached between the beard and a neighboring beard would see the formation of a combined fund in the hopes of expediting the process of replacing the lost oil, with the added benefit of a significantly reduced cost per milliliter for both parties.
The question is, will the shipment complete its journey to the other side of the world before it is too late?
Only time will tell.
Simon, please hire this guy!
This is a masterpiece
Love the story.
Cononut oil will save you until your lost love returns.
I picture this spill happening on carpet, which is quite absorbent depending on it's makeup. The Blaze I'm sure doesn't evaporate quickly like water. So surely the occasionally face dive rub on the carpet will transfer enough glorious juice to the beard to keep it from going full face fro till the shipment arrives.
@@StefanMedici 🤣👏👏
I've been told that you can still dig down a foot or so on the beaches of Prince William Sound in Alaska and find oil from the March, 1989 spill caused by the Amoco Valdez.
This program obviously,and sadly, does not care
I think that was the Exxon Valdez
The Amoco Cadiz sank near the French coast, not Alaska. You're talking about the Exxon Valdez and her sleeping captain.
Also, there was that oil catastrophy that was caused by a tanker called "Prestige" which sank with its contents into the sea in November 2002 - after having been pulled away from the shore by spanish authorities, which didn't help but exacerbated the precarious situation by causing the oil to be washed upon a large area of the spanish coast, instead of it being concentrated in one place.
@@netrioter That's a stupid and uneducated comment.
The Taylor oil spill isnt exactly small!
A leak that started in 2004 and you said averages 200 barrels a day leaking out would be 1,241,000 barrels to date!!
Also 200 barrels a day is only after efforts to slow it. So the real figure would be higher.
Not small at all!
4th generation nuclear power is sounding pretty good right now. Unlimited amounts of cheap power, minimal environmental impact arguably almost non.
Fuckin “free market”
Can you do a video on the oil in sunken WW2 ships?
I'm surprised the Exxon Valdez oil spill wasn't mentioned.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
Simon and his "Me Thaine" busts me up every time. 🤣😂🤣🖖
I was looking at the chemicals used on the torrey canyon when i got the notification for this video fantastic timing Fact Boi
Surprised you didn't mention the exxon Valdez
Probably going to have to update this list. There’s a oil tanker sitting the Red Sea, abandoned in 2017. Shit in the Middle East is preventing anyone from doing anything about it.
As my late father in law said. . . did you ever notice there’s just enough news to fill in the space between the commercials?
BP: “This is going to cost $50 billion. Time to tighten the belt, fellas- our executives will have to receive half bonuses this year”
Great video but what about the Exxon Valdez??
Makes you wonder what efforts have been put in to stem the leak from the 2004 one, considering it's still leaking, cos much like a speeding car heading for a crash, slowing it down is not stopping it...
One of things that the Deepwater Horizon disaster exposed was that, in addition to oil from the event itself, oil is constantly, naturally, seeping from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. . .
Regarding the Lakeview blowout. The blow out preventer (BOP) wasn't invented until 1922. So there's that...I'll also say shallow wells like this one are harder to control, even by today's standards.
Another major oil spill in 1969 off shore of Santa Barbara CA. It was a off shore oil well blow out and about 100,000 barrels of oil were spilled . It caused damage to the coast line killing kelp beds, krill and crustaceans that endangered Californian sea otters, sea lion, elephant seals , birds etc. Fed on so if the oil didn't kill out right thousands died of starvation. It the thrid largest ocean oil spill in US history after the Exxon Valdez and Deep water Horizon . But spill spread from Santa Barbara to down to Baja California in Mexico. In terms of loss of sea life ecological and shore line oil damage loss of tourism dollars it one of the worst ocean spills in US history.
Yes I’m happy someone else remembers the truth
Is that the reason we always had to clean our feet with gasoline when we got back from the beach?
@@treed5953 seems like there could be a better solution than that.
@@christophergruenwald5054 possibly, but at 5yrs old I just doing what I was told, and was glad to get the tar balls off my feet
No mention of exon Valdez?
Should do a video on how to cap it during the Gulf War! I saw a documentary on different methods used.
"But we thought we'd look at five smaller spills." *Only reads four*
My cousin is the captain of one of those tugboats spraying the BP rig. Speckled trout never have come back to the numbers they were before deep water horizon.
0:25 The joke is on you Simon! With how much I am on the internet, I will probably wind up watching this hypothetical documentary at some point.
Good video 👍
I'm surprised that the Exxon Valdez didn't make this list...
Some of the Torrey Canyon oil was dumped in a small quarry on the Chouet headland here in Guernsey in the Channel Islands, where it remains. Despite many attempts to rid the island of the oil have continued which have had only limited success. This continues to be an issue to with wild life (mainly pidgins) falling into the oil to this day.
Every time I see a news report or documentary about an oil spill I'm reminded of the classic Clarke & Dawe interview.
Interviewer: So what happened in this case?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the front fell off in this case, by all means, but it's very unusual.
Interviewer: But Senator Collins why did the front of the ship fall off?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well a wave hit it.
Interviewer: A wave hit it?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: A wave hit the ship!
Interviewer: Is that unusual?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Oh yeah! At sea? Chance in a million
I was expecting the Deepwater Horizon spill to be on here; was not disappointed.
Surprised the MV Wakashio oil spill of last year wasn't on this list. Especially given how sensitive the native flora and fauna of that island is
The Lake Peigneur disaster would be a good episode on some channel. No one even died. Accidentally poking a hole in a top of a salt mine under of lake went badly. Who could have guessed. It was spectacular and devastating.
There already is one on Today I Found Out: ruclips.net/video/CPERnfB-q3o/видео.html
No Exxon Valdez? What gives?
I guess 11 million gallons of oil and it being featured in Waterworld wasn't good enough for ol' Simon
Really solid video. A video is needed about cleanup projects perhaps?
I haven't knowingly bought anything from Exonn the Valdez sank in 1989. I haven't knowingly bought anything from BP since the Event Horizon in 2010. While I realize every oil company has had it's share of disasters but,for whatever reason, these 2 really ticked me off. Capt.Bob, SV ( Sailing Vessel) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl.6
Deepwater Horizon* no hate no spite just wanna say thats a noble choice you've made, but i cannot help myself so please don't be offended by my correction, because I am big fan of the movie... LOL Anyways the Event Horizon is a very underrated sifi Horror movie from 1997 starring Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne and definitely worth watching if you haven't watched it yet... oh and the event horizon is also known as the "rubicon" or "point of no return" at the edge of a waterfall or black hole...
@@thumpyloudfoot864 Lol... No offense taken, or ment. I'm aware of the various definitions of event horizon, but I remember being a kid and washing oil off of sea birds back in the late 60s,and early 70s. Guess the event horizon, brought that back to the fore,and effected many of my friends, not to mention our planet, kinda gets my back up. Merry Christmas ! Best to you, and your family. Capt.Bob, SV ( Sailing Vessel) 27th Chance, Tampa Fl
Good morning Simon
0:22 now it's time to talk about today's sponsor, MagellanTV!
Aaah a story that has been long overdue.
How much oil and other dangerous liquids went into the oceans in WW2? What problems does it present today?
546 million gallons just in the Gulf of Mexico. Look it up. Nazi subs vs. oil tankers.
I did not know about the PeMex disaster.
I didn't see one on the news I was working the area during the BP spill in the gulf and the I believe chevron spill in the river that lead to globals office dock in Lake Charles
Exxon Valdez?
You can make a video about every one of those
Oh dear me that is horrible, especially deep water horizon.
🙁 - oil spills
We drill for oil, none of it is spilled or wasted, no corners are cut.
The environment remains in pristine condition! Win win! 🛢️🗝️🌊🐟🦈🐳
This pushes my belief in pipelines being the best.
I'm not sure which of your channels would best cover this, but what about the April 2011 tornadoes that ravaged the southern US states?
That's why seafood is so expensive. There is none left!
Hearing about these on the news genuinely feels like a gut punch
Deepwater Horizon was insane for those of us living in Louisiana, it was all over the news all day. It totally messed up the coast and a bunch of industries. Still shocked at how long it took them to cap that thing. Oil and our reliance on it is awful.
Greek civil war next please
A gusher has long been the pop-culture shorthand for "Hoo, boy, we done got rich!" But actually, even in the early days it was/is still pretty much the worst thing that can happen -- even before anybody cared about pollution, there's the fire hazard (the pressure is from natural gas, can be ignited by the slightest spark), and the fact that ... the drill bit is solid,.and turned by steel pipe, and that drill string has to go somewhere for the oil to come out. So up to a mile of steel pipe goes into the air, and gravity is a harsh mistress.
The derrickman up at the top that fits the top end of a new bit of pipe into the mechanism has a zipline to GTFO very far away from the rig, for exactly that reason.
I'm from the center of the East Texas oilfield, the college I went to hosts the Oil Museum, and my nephew spent some time as a roughneck before marrying and starting his own handyman business.
Wasn't there an oil field fire in the USSR that burned for years?
Do you mean the Gateway to Hell? The Darvaza gas crater. He's done a video on that nearly a year ago if you're interested
@@sandybarnes887 that's the one, I just found it, thanks.
@@Wildirishgerry you are most welcome
I bet most Americans don't Know how big 'The State of Oklahoma' is, c'mon fact boy figures we can relate to....cheers.
Geez and you wonder why there are those still in denial of the damage caused by fossil fuels 🤦🏼♀️
Lol, like those in denial about the damage caused by “green energy”? Besides the fact that these areas have recovered pretty well, acting like fossil fuels are inherently evil shows a lack of understanding of the overall effect fossil fuels have. It’s a net positive.
what about i belive its called the Prestige near Spain in 2002
Can you make a video on Star Trek and how Roddenberry was a f*ck or just how it became so detailed and the cornucopia of topics that it is now? I feel like out of the 18428 RUclips channels I’m subscribed to, side projects is the best venue for that. Please and thank you whistle boy :p)
last time I was this early, oil still existed
I would have thought the Vector might have made the list. It was a tiny spill, but it costs thousands of lives on the Dona Paz en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Do%C3%B1a_Paz
How many barrels in a ton?
6 - 100 i guess
Great work... Keep it up. But look further, oil spills in Nigeria and Russian fields and piping Systems are sind to be the worst currently Activision. Maybe worth investigating on that..
Well, look on the bright side. In about 47 years there will be no oil left to spill.
People have been making that claim since the early 1970s. And here it is 50 years later...
@@J3scribe It's the environmental version of the doomsday cultists.
@@J3scribe Past performance doesn't guarantte future results. Some math and statistics shows even if the entire earth were hollow and filled with liquid oil (cheapest to extract) we'd use it all in a bit over 400 years. Clearly we have no where near that since it's mostly rock and iron. Not to mention in the 1970's prediction science was far less accurate than now, and wasn't much better than a few semi-educated guesses and a bunch of crystal balls. We will never run out of oil COMPLETELY, but it doesn't need to before shit hits the fan. Sure, there's shale oil probably under 2-3 miles of ocean and another 5-10 miles of rock under that that has a liquid-equivalent pool of maybe 1M barrels (that will get used up in a matter of minutes by the world economy, so you have to get to it and extract it quickly) all over the place. Now go get that when the price of oil is under $10,000 a barrel and try to still make a profit while making it usable (shale is energy intensive to make into liquid crude). Oh and do it before that 47 years is up so the economy doesn't crash in the meantime and the price of oil along with it (no profit= no point, energy companies don't run on compassion or pity, other than maybe that of their investors).
Oh yeah, in the 1970's they were predicting PEAK oil, not total depletion worldwide (huge difference), and that came and went around 2011-2013 when the economy started to recover from the 2008 crash. Why do you think no new oil refineries have been built since the 1970's you mentioned? Mainly because there's no enough oil left to refine to recoup the cost of bulding a new refinery (just incremental upgrades that only make financial sense to implement when the price of refined fuel goes up 3-5x faster than inflation).
Actually kinda curious about the spills caused by combat during WW2...
Oil bad!
**Furiously typed out on something made from oil created in a civilization built by the internal combustion engine**
so was the ships full of oil in the 300 movie not more than hollywood license
How much oil was split during WW2? A lot of oil tankers were sunk.
I despise humans. WE make the catastrophic messes but it's the innocent wildlife and environment that suffers
Holy fuck have we lost some oil
Hey I'm in the 1st 13 views! I'm usually an hour late! Before I see all this video, I'm just saying, f*** BP, allegedly
You do realise the Deepwater Horizon was an incident that occurred wholly due to American decisions? I know there has been a lot of anti British talk from ignorant Americans about how Britain is responsible (y'know, British Petroleum and all that), but at the time BP was just a brand name, the company was mainly US controlled.
American Oil Company. Am O Co, pronounced just like it looks when you break it down, fact-boy.
BP had to shell out over 50 billion dollars
Ah ah ah I see what u did there fact boi. OGBB
holy crap just how screwed is the Gulf of Mexico?
Fact boy do furies!
There are 10,000 oil spills worse then Chernobyl. And don’t get me started on rare earth materials mining for batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Still think nuclear energy is bad?
Why jsnt attacking an oil tanker a war crime w how much environmental effects it has. I get it can be a good move bc it can cripple a force to not have fuel, but its not worth it to win a ruined world.
We're sorry
Sorry
We're so sorry
Too much focus on dollars on this one. The important thing is the affect on the people in the area and more important---the wildlife
Think about someone that started BP and then can afford 50B what was the history?
You comment gave me an existential crisis
I just keep seeing the Greta meme "How dare you?"
if you look at just these events featured in the Video, it's the reason i can't take "idiots with a car" seriosly when they try to counterargue about Lithium-BEV and how it's mined
if you got no car, but a Bike etc. okay, but if you have one and care so much about the enviroment: why having a car? Why caring NOW but shruged at the terrible, car dependend infrastructur, driving a large gasguzzler and that Lithium is Mined in an Area where nothing lives, but's it's okay to drill for oil in a unique nature preserve?
yeah, it's not great perfect how it's mined , but recyclable. Try that with Oil
6th!
I just want my life back!
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