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How do we get crude oil from underground?
Thank-You
and why do we need crude oil?

I need petroleum jelly for my dry lips and skin (nothing else works!),and I haven’t found them in the big department stores or drugstores in Munich. Where can I find some?

not wanting to end chechnya conflict, helping insurgents in the middle east and elsewhere,nigeria with weapons.
thanx, good info roger dodger

i know that it is important but i just don’t know why? is it because everyone was a little(grapes- small) mad(wrath) about something.. The farmers cause they got kicked of their land the big land owners because the were afraid that the farmers might revolt.. ppl that lived in california because the "Okies" were there [...]

I remember the gasoline shortages of the 70’s. What was the price of oil per barrel then? What price does that equal in todays prices, figuring the inflation rate?

This cars are running now in latin american : fueled from natural gas or petroleum gas …I wonder if this a safe solution for our enviroment…?

my company is building a petroleum refinery in kazakhstan. the items are going to be used in there. they are going to be approved by tco and they must meet the gost standars of kazakhstan. please help me to find some companies.

Now i more or less just want to here people opinion on this, but in his address to Columbia University the president of Iran asked why should the people of Palsitine give up there land for Israel…this sounds very similar to the reason freed slaves where never given 40 acres and a mule for the [...]

"Our" supplies increased a lot with Iraq–they’re only second to Saudi Arabia! And oil is being shipped to China–from Alaska!
Supply exceeds demand and it has since the 90s.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/27/9207/
Oops wrong link! This is the one:
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0907-04.htm
And this:
http://wyden.senate.gov/issues/wyden_oil_report.pdf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/06/ccoil106.xml

The Katrina disaster in New Orleans decreased the ability of oil companies to purify crude oil into gasoline. This caused:
A. the supply curve for gasoline to shift inward.
B. the supply curve for gasoline to shift outward.
C. the quantity of gasoline demanded to move out along the demand curve.
D. the quantity of gasoline supplied to move [...]

I’m reading in the news that the price of oil has declined since Gustav hit, but I thought that hurricanes usually made prices go up?

because isn’t petroleum called crude oil? please explain.

Is an oil & gas multiple well drilling investment in proven fields safe in today’s enconomy?

I would like to switch into natural gas not only because the price difference but because it is more environmentally friendly…But I can not find any specific answers via Internet search and I need a rough estimate on how much it is to switch from oil to natural gas heating.

In your opinion, do you think that a landowner should have the right to put restrictions on property that he/she is selling?
I recently looked at a piece of property and the owner wanted 45 thousand for the property ( no house ). He said the house had to be stick built, so many square foot [...]

Investors are manipulating the price of oil far past its typical supply and demand equilibrium. Is this an attempt to manipulate American opinion which has grown tired of the Iraqi War?
Will we be more willing to vote for war this Fall when traders push the cost of oil so high ?

I saw this on Cats 101 today. A woman said she gives her cat petroleum jelly and that helps with the cat’s hairballs. I have some petroleum jelly (Vaseline which is 100% petroleum jelly). Does this actually help? Also, how exactly should I give it to my cat if I was [...]

I am so confused about how gasoline is made! I embarrassed myself in class today by saying gasoline is made up of fossil fuels and then contradicting myself when I then said gas is made from crude oil. Can someone please tell me the difference or correlation between crude oil, fossil fuels, and [...]

In a continuing resolution he slipped in extending the bans on offshore drilling and development of western oil shale. Didn’t he get the memo that we don’t care for dollar plus gas?

I have an automatic dry setting which I always use, and now my clothes are coming out damp. I now have to run it through another cycle, and with the price of gas…ouch! Does propane just not work as well? thanks

1. How much energy is saved when we use petroleum?
2. How does petroleum work??????

I suspect they’ll go from about /gallon down to the bargain price of say .80/gallon.
Whoo-hoo, better get drilling now!!!

I was surprise to see my oil stock still fall after so news of oil price in record high. Are the company keep all the profit them self and not share to the stock holder?

Most of current machine need petroleum for energy resource but the petroleum deposit currently becoming smaller from day to day. Many new alternative energy is prepared to replace it such as ethanol, hydrogen, etc. But to replace or modify current machines to fit with those new energy will cost much.