Have you ever thought of how America gets its oil? Even though every day we use oil for many transportation such as in the car, airplane and jets, even in the lawn mower. Many times this just goes over our head, because oil is there just for us to buy, not realizing how they got there. In the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ocean Service Education, an agency that enriches life through science talks about how “The United States uses about 700 million gallons of oil every day. The world uses nearly 3 billion gallons each day” (NOAA). That is a lot of oil used daily. There are many oil pipelines over the United States, which brings oil from other countries. For right now, there is a lot of attention on whether Keystone XL
