Finally, A Light At the End of the Oil Tunnel

PHEW, what a sigh of relief! Everything is lookin up. The oil shortage crisis seems to be imporving just after we had already hit rock bottom. I am still on the fence and about it completely going back noramal. However, I do have high hopes but I do not want to be overconfident and continue taking the precious oil we have left for granted. I will no longer go back to my old ways, this has taught me to grow as a person and be considerate not only for me but for the planet. I witness the many struggles each individual faced. From business owners shutting down once popular restaurants to people going ballistic over food. Food that before was thrown out because of abundance.
Not even in my craziest dreams would I have thought that oil would affect me so dramatically. I must be honest, at some point I thought oil was mostly used for gasoline. How naive and uninformed was I! As a student I feel horrible to know that I did not know oil is practically used in and for everything. Most products everyone uses oil was involved somehow. It is not only products but FOOD! Probably not to make it but to transport it from one place to the other. Much of our food comes from around the country and the world. Without oil to transport food, we would be so limited.
After what I have experienced with the oil spill and the shortage, I have changed. I HAD to change but I am glad because I know I contributed to saving our planet. If everyone stands together I hope we NEVER go back to this!

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BP Oil Company Insight

I am utterly dumbfounded with the information that has risen these past weeks. It all began with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Since I have been working for British Petroleum (BP Oil Company) I am aware of the economic effects our nation is and will be facing. It is reasonable that the law passed in response to the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill will make this company responsible for clean-up costs. However, having a limit set at $75 million and then because of this unfortunate oil spill raised to $10 billion on damages is outrageous. These large amounts of money helped me become conscious of how costly this will be compared to a natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans was devastating but the oil spill is capable to do more damage and it has already begun to do so. It is because it will not take years to clean-up but decades! It has affected everyone from animals and wildlife to humans and lifestyles.

In fact, my best friend and roommate has been terribly affected by this devastating oil spill. He was let go at his job of three years as a manager of a hotel. No one would have imagined that since tourism was very popular here due to the beaches. As to be expected, no one wants to visit these contaminated beaches now. For the company it is of great worry and urgency to have a solution, having so many millions of gallons spilled into the Gulf daily. To be exact 200,000 gallons spilled and at least another million gallons to be spilled.

Paying rent has become challenging because I no longer have the economic support from my roommate and with these sky rocketing costs for food my financial status is in the negatives. For now I hardly have money to spend for my actual necessities. This time of day, I must be serene and understandable with everyone including my self. I will not let this oil spill and oil shortage get in the way my friendship between my roommate. For now my salary is enough to support both but I truly do not know how long this will go for. I need and must keep positive!

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Taking a Toll on EVERYTHING!

Waking up this morning ready to devour a good breakfast dish at my favorite restaurant here around the corner I discovered my worst nightmare. It has CLOSED! Yeah, closed. How is that possible. I knew this oil shortage was bad but that restaurant always had a waiting list. Well, it should probably be in past tense, it used to have a waiting list before the oil shortage had completely gone downhill. I too, recently started paying fewer visits since I thought the prices for some dishes were ridiculous. Instead, today I went to a nearby restaurant a few blocks away. I, of course had to take my bike since the reason for going to the other place was to save money and oil.

Later that day I met up with the manager of the restaurant that had closed. He confirmed my suspicions, shipping the ingredients was nearly impossible. Not enough profit was being made with ingredients being shipped internationally and all. Competition was also a challenge since the dishes being made at the other restaurant were simpler because of the local ingredients used. He told me the restaurant could not lower its prices which left no other option but to close. That made me realize that places that offer economical prices while still offering the same satisfaction to combat hunger, will likely thrive. At the end of the day is not delicacy what many lean for but for many it is simple tasty food. Still, I will find it hard to wrap my mind around the idea of not going there anymore since it has been there since I first moved here and opened for 30 years. Wow 30 years in the making! This oil shortage is taking quite a toll on my life!

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