I love every day that I don’t use gasoline.
Gasoline is only one part of what comes from oil. If you participate in modern society, you’re using petroleum products whether you like it or not lol
I wish my country had a fuck load of oil.
Well we kinda did before the Witch sold it to all her mates on the cheap.
If your country’s economy is based on a single basic commodity, you’re going to have a bad time. These countries tend to be brutal dictatorships.
I didn’t say I wanted it based on a single commodity I said I wanted my country to have more oil.
Those countries were dictatorships before they had oil and the ones around them they don’t have oil at dictatorships
I wish my country had a fuck load of oil.
That hasn’t worked out well for the people of many countries that have oil. In Saudi Arabia, women only got the right to drive legally in 2017.
Here’s the 2022 top 10 oil producing nations. How many of those would you like to live in?
- United States 12,900,000[8]
- Russia 9,480,000[9]
- Saudi Arabia (OPEC) 9,060,000[9]
- Canada 4,778,973[10]
- Iraq (OPEC) 4,340,000[9]
- China 4,016,664[11]
- Brazil 3,670,000[12]
- United Arab Emirates (OPEC) 3,250,000[9]
- Iran (OPEC) 3,140,000[9]
- Kuwait (OPEC)
Both Canada and the US have a solid middle class and residents enjoy quite a bit of freedom. Norway is also near the top of the list, and have made oil into a huge boon for the citizenry.
The biggest thing is countries need to either have a diverse economy or they need to use the oil wealth to build such an economy. Many of the countries on that list have not and they are in for a bad time when the oil runs dry or others simply produce enough that they no longer matter. Venezuela should be higher on that list, but they really screwed themselves. (Countries like China, despite producing a fair bit of oil, actually import a shitload via sea routes they have no ability to protect. It’s actually a huge vulnerability for them if they find themselves on the wrong side of a blockade.)
But, back to the point, it isn’t so much that oil makes your country shit. It’s just that oil happens to exist heavily in a region filled with shit countries (and don’t be mistaken, their are many shit countries in the world). The Middle East has been a disaster area for a long, long, long time.
