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Sharon Petroleum, or more commonly known as Crude oil, available naturally below surface of the earth; used by human being as fuel and applicable for production of various chemicals. Modern society heavily depends on Petroleum / crude oil inclusive of natural gas. Crude oil has become most significant fuel and raw material for production of chemicals in present day world. Because of higher demand for hydrocarbons, pressure on exploration, production and further processing of crude oil / natural gas is tremendous. The major use of petroleum is as a fuel - gasoline, jet fuel, heating oil. It is often used to generate electricity as well. There are many other uses of petroleum such as: plastic, asphalt, paraffin wax, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, etc. US is among the top three oil producing countries (Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States). Millions of people around the world and in the US are employed in the oil industry. According to the US department of labor, there were approximately 136,000 wage and salary jobs in the oil and gas extraction industry in 2006. Not included in these figures are the thousands of Americans who work abroad for U.S. companies conducting mining or drilling operations around the world. Employment in oil and gas extraction grew 9 percent overall between 2003 and 2006. (Source: [] ). Although there are many alternatives to petroleum fuels, an analysis of costs and benefits shows that petroleum is still the best energy resource. There are many promising for automobiles such as Hydrogen, ethanol, hybrid, and biomass but many of these technologies have not yet proven sufficiently profitable to providers or attractive to consumers. Petroleum’s price is still the lowest compared to forms of energy with lower environmental impacts, like wind and solar power. Unlike hydrogen or even natural gas, oil is easily transportable and there is a vast infrastructure in place to support its use. Benefits of petroleum have brought enumerable benefits to human civilization: quality of life, prosperity and a source of income to energy traders, therefore, oil should remain the primary energy resource and efforts to find and produce oil should grow.