Oil: for and against

Fors of the extraction of the oil:

· Production of energy

· Performance

· Obtaining of the product

· Transfers to the nation more than 5,6 trillions of weight, which finance educational projects, of health, of basic reparation and routes, between others.

· Royalties

· Social Investment

· Contracting of goods and services, and purchase of inputs

· Generation of employment

· A very high percentage of the synthetic fertilizers come from the oil.

Againsts of the extraction of the oil:

· Its combustion is one of the major causes of CO2 emissions, whose buildup in the atmosphere generates climate change. It originates vast ponds of toxic water 

· Numerous aquatic birds they die in these lagoons

· To be insoluble in water and therefore, difficult to clean

· The combustion of his derivatives it produces residual products

· In affected zones, there become impossible the fishing, the navigation and the utilization of the beaches with recreative ends

· His extraction, transport, refining, distribution and commercialization of anyone of his derivatives generates many pollution.