Do you know what happens when oil meets water?
Most of us use oil for a lot of things in our lives.
We get the oil from deep under the surface of the Earth.
Oil rigs drill on land to get oil from deep underground.
Oil rigs drill under water to get oil from deep under seas and oceans.
The oil that these oil rigs get is called crude oil.
The oil refinery changes the unrefined oil into refined oil that we can use.
Crude oil is oil that has not been refined. In order to make this oil useful, we need to take this oil to an oil refinery.
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Oil can be useful. But oil can be very destructive! Oil rigs cause a lot of destruction to the natural land or water around them.
Factories that refine oil cause a lot of destruction because they use so much energy. Fuels from refined oil cause a lot of destruction when they are burned and released. Refining and using
But sometimes, there can be accidents that are even worse! Big oil tankers bring unrefined oil from the water to factories on land.
Sometimes, these oil tankers can get into accidents. They can cause an oil spill!
Oil spills cause big problems.
Oil spills hurt fishers who need healthy fish to sell.
Oil spills kill animals that swim in the water. The oil in the water chokes the swimming animals
When all the animals in the water die, fishers suffer do not have enough fish to sell.
Oil spills damage the beaches and landscape. When all the beaches and waters are full of oil, no one will visit those places because they are too dirty.
Have you ever mixed water and oil?
It is very hard to remove the oil from the water. It is almost impossible. It costs a lot of money and it takes a long time.
Most of the time, you can never really remove the oil. Oil spills damage a lot of things. The damage from oil spills lasts a long time.
If we choose to use oil in our lives, we have to be responsible!
We have to be careful and respectful of nature.
It is our responsibility to keep the Earth clean.