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Monster Essays - Oil and Protecting The Environment
Oil and Protecting The Environment
Protecting the environment while producing, transporting, refining and
marketing fuel is a challenge the petroleum industry must meet every day.
For all of the benefits oil has brought to modern society, risk is
inherent in taking it from the Earth -- in drilling wells, storing fuel
for future use and transporting it from place to place. API member
companies try their hardest every day to minimize these risks. Oil is a
natural substance -- the beneficial uses of oil were discovered when
natural seeps were found to have amazing uses. Called "burning springs,"
native Americans would skim oil from the surface of these m....
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