Oil discovery is it a cause or a blessing?

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Oil is a natural resources so there's no way a natural resources is going to be a curse to a country unless those managing the country are thief that do not want their people to benefit from the natural resources that their country has. A natural resource when used correctly is meant to improve the lifes of the citizens of the country, it mightn't be able to make everybody rich but it should improve the lifes of those living in that country. Most people just want to be able to afford three squad male and they don't care about the wealths in the world but the evil politicians wants to enslaved everyone and become the only ones enjoying by selling out their nation.

Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

This doesn't mean the natural resources was a curse, it just means those in power aren't supposed to be their because they don't have the best interest of the nation at heart. When a good leader takes over, the country is going to enjoy their natural resources. Countries that have been able to make good use of their oil are world richest countries right now. The world is being powered by oil and no country that has it should be suffering but unfortunately that isn't the world we find ourselves in because I'm writing from a country that has one of the best oils yet our minimum wages is around $45.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

I prefer you make use of the word "curse" instead of "cause" because your spelling may change the intended meaning. But anyways natural mineral resources like crude oil is a blessing to any society that have it. But it becomes a problem when the greedy politician handle the welfare of such society. Crude oil has caused alot of problem in many places and it is simply because of political manipulation. They shear public fund generated from the natural resources and bride some representative of the host community where the oils is generated and set confusion amongs the youth while they keep enjoying themselves. It's only when people that represent you in your region decide not to sell your right and accept bribe, that is when oil money will be a blessing and not a curse. Although this cases of crude oil crises always happens more frequent in Africa.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

It's a blessing for countries that are drilling, refining and selling it and used the money for the betterment of their country, it's a course for countries that has it, sell the oil and then loot the money in other countries but oil discovery is global problem for everyone. We can't go green as long as we continue to use the products, gas emissions isn't affecting the countries that sell but it's everywhere because gasoline is used in almost all part of the countries.

It's just sad that there is no alternative best to oil consumption, it's now something we will use from now till only scientists knows when, cars consume more than 50% of the crude oil but electric cars are not upto the standard, the disadvantages that comes with it is extreme. If we are to even forget about oil, what about the gases, this is why oil will remain forever.

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The discovery of oil is one of the most important discoveries in human civilization, because by using oil we can drastically reduce the use of coal in vehicles, increase effectiveness and various other benefits. But even so, everything has its good and bad impacts, as well as oil, it has a massive negative effect on its use by increasing carbon dioxide production and increasing global warming. Not to mention air, sea pollution and many other bad effects. But even so, we need to be grateful to oil because it really helps human civilization.

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Discovery of oil has been blessings for certain region and curse for some because human being are so selfish they want to control every resources and we have seen what happened in countries like Iraq and their attack on Kuwait, these were for wider control of natural resources. Why does USA intervenes in the internal affairs of other Middle East nation? It's because of their oil.

But I don't deny it can transform lives of people in that region of planned and utilized to build more wealth out of it. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait are the nation's which we can take as an example and even Iraq in 70s. I think it's a boom which can be Bane if we have greedy leaders.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

Oil discovery is basically a blessing, all resources do. However, weak economic performance of some oil rich countries indicates that some of the blessing we call natural resources became a curse. It describes how countries rich in natural resources were unable to use that wealth to boost their economies and how these countries had lower economic growth. The term used for this is "resource curse".

Quote from: EarnOnVictor on July 18, 2024, 05:56:55 AM

The answer is in both ways, it could be a blessing and it could be a curse, it depends on the leadership of the country. This is where creativity and leadership come in. Good things in the hands of bad people will never be allowed to show their goodness.

I must agree that long lasting ineffective behavior and also corruption are considered to be one of the major causes, figuratively natural resources are not always a curse, natural resources can increase high economic status for countries with efficient economic performance and strong institutions.

Great example would be UAE where the distribution of large oil revenues in the form of social and economic infrastracture, social services, education and health has raised the standard living of UAE citizens. UAE also has a business-friendly environment, with effective public administration for their control of corruption, a major example of avoinding the "resource curse".

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Oil discovery is it a cause or a blessing? The simple answer is both, oil can bring blessings in our life look at we now oil bring energy and can be helpful by that means really helpful from our car to our electricity and lot of it.

But also look an oil can bring a country fights each other, war and other problem.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

The too many uses of crude oil in the society have made it to be a gemstone that everyone will love to have and control over them. The wealth that resides in crude oil cannot be overemphasised as it is termed the only means of some country to still be alive and striving today. Crude oil has brought about the richest nations today and what they boast of, it’s important that this resources don’t get to the wrong hands to avoid it being mismanaged. Also in the hands of those with leadership powers, it’s important they don’t use it to enrich themselves and focus on how to develop the nations better than it is. Those rich nations used them well to their advantage and are now enjoying the sacrifice they did several years ago.

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Quote from: ChiBitCTy on July 15, 2024, 01:20:38 PM

It’s a good question but I’m not sure there’s really a great way to answer it. I guess it’s been both a blessing and a curse. On one hand it’s been something that’s helped mankind advance in ways that we would have never got to without it. On the other hand it has been the cause or pollution, war, and all sorts of negative things in that aspect.

Definitely a good idea to try and move away from it.

That's what we should do to avoid the outcome that OP is predicting - oil wars. Oil is only a half-measure. It should be treated like the finite resource it is. It's supposed to sustain us for a while and allow us to build an industry that is based on renewables and can sustain itself. One of those infinite sources of energy is fusion combined with degradable energy cells. Another is hydrogen since we can produce as much as we want, just can't do it in a way that's efficient enough to be cheap.

It's great that we have oil, but we should start conserving it more and we're actually doing that by adding alcohol to gasoline to reduce the demand.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

discovery is it a cause or a blessing?

It's not only the state that is fighting back, if the produce of the land is managed poorly, it means that it is unfair in its distribution, even at home if the father is unfair to the children, of course in that house a rebel will be born because of the unfairness of parents, that is a natural law that often happens, that is why greed, a poorly managed economy will produce bad results, on the contrary.

Talking about petroleum, it is indeed a blessing for humans, because it has good economic value, so we often see countries going to war because of oil, However, there are also many countries that are peaceful and peaceful by implementing good, fair and prosperous oil management.

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Quote from: EarnOnVictor on July 18, 2024, 05:56:55 AM

The answer is in both ways, it could be a blessing and it could be a curse, it depends on the leadership of the country. You can imagine Nigeria blessed with crude oil and other mineral resources that can't be finished still retarding in progress. But there are many countries without crude oil and hardly have mineral resources to sell but still found their ways around it and are doing better than Nigeria. This is where creativity and leadership come in. Good things in the hands of bad people will never be allowed to show their goodness.

Practically, if a good country is blessed with crude oil, it should use the proceeds to harness the potential of other aspects of the economy and invest also in the people. But the reverse is the case in African countries, for example, they just relax and become reliant almost solely on crude oil since it is free money for them. Imagine countries having an income source of over 85% crude oil, some are even worse than that. What will they do when the crude oil is finished or the fight against carbon emission is finally won and petroleum fades off? These are countries blessed with good lands for agriculture, but laziness, corruption and lack of vision for the future have entrapped them.

That is true, it all depends on what you do with it, and there are a lot of places that will not do well due to corruption. This isn't just about X nation or Y nation, there are dozens of nations with corruption, and that means it may not end very well at all, we need to just consider how things could change over course of long time. We need to realize that we can't make it work, and this is why I believe that we need to keep on working to make it as best as we could, which would be a lot more beneficial to everyone.

This is why I think if we could have no corruption in politics, that would be a lot better and crypto could be used for all of it. We could just use blockchain to keep track of financial statements of everyone in the politics, and we could use stuff like warren buffet says, like if debt goes over certain gdp, nobody gets reelected.

These type of things could help everyone, and eventually people who will be good could end up with the position instead and properly run the country. Most people do not realize that they are being fooled, they are just told to hate the other side, and because of this we are ending up with a situation that is going to end up with a result with us not looking at our side being bad.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

It's better to be in a land where oil is abundant and where its people are living in abundance than in a third-world country where there's a struggle for the rise of the prices inflation due to the rise of oil, which is a big necessity to run an electricity and power the transportation industry.

Our country is being controlled by oil because it lacks it. We are held hostage by countries abundant in oil, so we'd consider it a big blessing if our country had a reservoir of oil.
An abundance of oil defines a country's status in the world economy.

That's not necessarily true. If I'm not mistaken, Venezuela is one of the countries with the largest oil reserves in the world. But let's see, their country is as rich and life is as happy as you think?

In addition, oil exploitation is not easy and not every country has enough technology to exploit it themselves and that is why many wars and invasions break out to compete for resources in the world. I think if your country has oil or resources, that will be an advantage, but whether your country is rich or not depends on politics. An oil-rich country can become rich or it can sink into war, that will depend on that country's foreign policy.

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Quote from: erep on July 15, 2024, 01:27:28 PM

Some countries that have natural resources cannot manage their own results for the welfare of their country and must collaborate with foreign countries to process the results of these resources by sharing them with other countries, managers, foreign countries, but unfortunately local workers are not involved in state companies and have foreign work to manage state assets.
The government must have a commitment to end contracts with foreign countries when the revenue target has been achieved so that it can continue other projects for the welfare of the country without having to share the proceeds of natural resources with foreign countries.

It seems like you are telling about the condition of a country that is not advanced in terms of managing natural resources so that the government still needs help from other parties in order to be able to manage the resources that exist within its own country. It sounds a little sad, but this is also based on the government's ability and also the human resources within the country itself in terms of managing it. Because if the government itself is able to handle it very well, of course there is no need for other people's interference in this matter so that the government can directly use energy from within without having to contact outside parties regarding such matters.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

It's better to be in a land where oil is abundant and where its people are living in abundance than in a third-world country where there's a struggle for the rise of the prices inflation due to the rise of oil, which is a big necessity to run an electricity and power the transportation industry.

Our country is being controlled by oil because it lacks it. We are held hostage by countries abundant in oil, so we'd consider it a big blessing if our country had a reservoir of oil.
An abundance of oil defines a country's status in the world economy.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

The answer is in both ways, it could be a blessing and it could be a curse, it depends on the leadership of the country. You can imagine Nigeria blessed with crude oil and other mineral resources that can't be finished still retarding in progress. But there are many countries without crude oil and hardly have mineral resources to sell but still found their ways around it and are doing better than Nigeria. This is where creativity and leadership come in. Good things in the hands of bad people will never be allowed to show their goodness.

Practically, if a good country is blessed with crude oil, it should use the proceeds to harness the potential of other aspects of the economy and invest also in the people. But the reverse is the case in African countries, for example, they just relax and become reliant almost solely on crude oil since it is free money for them. Imagine countries having an income source of over 85% crude oil, some are even worse than that. What will they do when the crude oil is finished or the fight against carbon emission is finally won and petroleum fades off? These are countries blessed with good lands for agriculture, but laziness, corruption and lack of vision for the future have entrapped them.

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Quote from: ChiBitCTy on July 15, 2024, 01:20:38 PM

It’s a good question but I’m not sure there’s really a great way to answer it. I guess it’s been both a blessing and a curse. On one hand it’s been something that’s helped mankind advance in ways that we would have never got to without it. On the other hand it has been the cause or pollution, war, and all sorts of negative things in that aspect.

Definitely a good idea to try and move away from it.

It comes down to how capable the entity that manages the reserve, carbon footprint can be reduced in many ways, the war itself is because greed.

so far oil and any fossil fuel is still the most affordable, widely used energy that become the thing that moves global industry, there are electric energy indeed but the development of it isn't good enough for it to be utilized in the global scale industry.
it's more of a blessing in my opinion and not a curse, after all its just oil, just like how your country might be blessed with rare mineral, it all comes down to the government itself on how to manage it for the prosperity of its citizens.

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Quote from: premier97 on July 06, 2024, 05:01:42 PM

The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.

Violence is a bi-product of greed and corruption! You can take an example of African continent. Despite holding the highest amount of natural resources, they are the poorest! yes, Europeans are also partly responsible for this because they wanted to continue with their colonies so they had created some Frankensteins to ignite the internal wars. But if Africa can really manage their resources well, they will emerge as the richest continent on the earth.

So natural resources are always a blessing. But when such wealth falls into the hand of incapable leaders, things turn into chaos. Then the countries like US, UK, France and China comes to promise a good life by investing billions of dollars and they starts capturing the resources when those leaders fail to pay back the debt.

If you look to middle east, oil has changed the lives of the people there except a few countries. If you look to Africa, natural resources has brought in issues for the citizens. All depends on how you handle it!

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Quote from: OrangeII on July 15, 2024, 11:58:58 PM

The discovery of oil is a blessing for a country that has abundant oil resources. However, with good management, this can change their country into a better country than before. However, if we talk about bad management, then this can have a big impact on anyone involved in it. This doesn't even happen only in oil management, but in all industries. However, with good management, all the qualities of the country can be improved.

There are many examples that we can find and see through our own eyes in countries that have abundant oil resources, where in general these countries are always more advanced due to fairly good governance. Because any resource that is not managed so well can also trigger the destruction of a country so that what is hoped for by the government and society may not actually work because of wrong management. However, from the examples that we have seen for ourselves at this time, of course countries that have oil resources can be better before they start collaborating with other parties because this is because the parties who manage them are very intelligent.

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Quote from: OrangeII on July 15, 2024, 11:58:58 PM

The discovery of oil is a blessing for a country that has abundant oil resources. However, with good management, this can change their country into a better country than before. However, if we talk about bad management, then this can have a big impact on anyone involved in it. This doesn't even happen only in oil management, but in all industries. However, with good management, all the qualities of the country can be improved.

Discovering oil on your soil is the equivalent to find a fortune out of nowhere you can keep, but just as there are lottery winners that are unable to manage their finances and bankrupt themselves in a few years, the same could happen with a government that suddenly finds itself with a lot of money coming from their oil deposits, after all as lucrative as oil can be, it is a finite resource that at some point will run out, and the government needs to finds ways to replace that income once that happens or this could leave a huge hole on its finances.

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The discovery of oil is a blessing for a country that has abundant oil resources. However, with good management, this can change their country into a better country than before. However, if we talk about bad management, then this can have a big impact on anyone involved in it. This doesn't even happen only in oil management, but in all industries. However, with good management, all the qualities of the country can be improved.

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