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Many of our personal care products are derived from petroleum including perfume, hair dye, cosmetics lipstick, makeup, foundation, eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner , hand lotion, toothpaste, soap , shaving cream, deodorant, panty hose, combs, shampoo, eyeglasses, and contact lenses. Modern health care relies on petroleum products that have few substitutes.
Plastics are used in a wide-range of medical devices and petrochemicals are relied on for pharmaceuticals. Products include hospital equipment, IV bags, aspirin, antihistamines, artificial limbs, dentures, hearing aids, heart valves and many more. Our homes are full of products that used petroleum in their production. From construction materials such as roofing and housing insulation to linoleum flooring, furniture, appliances and home decor such as pillows, curtains, rugs, and house paint.
Even many everyday kitchen items including dishes, cups, non-stick pans, and dish detergent use oil in their creation. Energy sector provides for Canadians today as it looks to the future.
Uses for Oil Canadians consume a lot of products made from oil. Kayak Facts. Kayaks make their case. Not all major oil-exporting countries belong to OPEC, however. Mexico, one of the world's biggest, is not a member. Nor are Britain and Norway. It is true that while OPEC countries do not by any means produce all the world's oil, they have the ability to set the guidelines for world oil prices. This was certainly true 10 years ago, when OPEC increased oil prices four times.
For many countries, especially the very poor countries that do not produce their own oil, this steep price increase caused great hardships. The same was true in , when OPEC doubled the price.
One reason some nation's economies are now having a difficult time is that they have to pay huge oil bills. Much of what many countries earn from selling their goods abroad is taken up in paying the cost of imported oil. Many of the oil producers that have been making millions or billions of dollars from the higher prices are now finding they are in trouble. Demand for oil has dropped. There has been less need for oil because the economies of the world are in a slump.
The high price of oil is partly to blame. And because of the steep oil price, many countries have decided to save oil by using less of it. Another way countries avoid the high oil price is to turn to other sources of fuel. Coal, for example. The result is that today the world is awash with oil simply because the demand for it has gone down. This glut has caused prices to fall. Gasoline prices in the United States went down about 10 percent last year. BP and Shell between them contribute nearly a fifth of all dividend income generated by UK companies.
Bad news for them can threaten the security of retirement income. They also pay a lot of tax into public coffers. And then there are the environmental concerns. When oil is cheap, there is less economic incentive to look for alternatives. Not too cheap to threaten dividends, tax revenue and discourage greener alternatives, not too expensive to place a burden on the economy. Right now that balance has been shattered, and it means very bad economic news is headed our way - if we didn't know that already.
Oil plunges for a second day on gloomy outlook. Who wins and who loses when oil prices fall?
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