What does our planet use the oil that we take from it for?

Question

This question is to be taken from a purely scientific slant. Not interested in political or humanitarian aspect at this point

Answer 1

Oil is turned into many common products using a process called Fractional Distillation. Oil consists of hydrocarbons (strings of hydrogen and carbon atoms) and these boil at different temperatures, the crude oil is heated and as each hydrocarbon boils it is extracted.

Some of the common products produced from the distillation of oil are: liquid petroleum gas (LPG), plastics, aviation fuel, parafin, diesel fuels, gasoline, lubricating oils and waxes, bitumen, ashphalt and heavy oils used in ships and factories.

Answer 2

The petroleum found under the earth's surface comes from a catastrophic geological disaster in which organic material was buried and decayed into oil, during a time when the earth had become almost completely depleted of plant life which helps regulate the atmospheric temperature, causing the surface to heat and great humidity, then a sudden rise in plantlife restablized the temperature. The earth does not use the petroleum as any need, it is just the remains of ancient organic material.

Answer 3

The oil that we take from the earth doesn't serve a purpose for our planet itself; it is mostly the remains of ancient plants that have decomposed and changed chemically over many millions of years. The one benefit of leaving it where it is, is that it keeps carbon from those ancient plants "locked" inside the earth until it is burned, at which point it becomes carbon dioxide, and as I'm sure you're aware, a "greenhouse" gas.

Answer 4

It doesn't use it.
It's a substance that is merely buried in the ground. That substance, as you've probably heard is made from exstinct dinosaurs that were buried over the milenia and congealed into a gooey mess called oil.

Answer 5

The Earth itself is not a living thing. It doesn't "use" anything.

Answer 6

It doesn't use it. It justs sits there.