Which of the following is a correct statement about the production of shale oil in the u. s.?
question 44 options:
a)
if political factors make petroleum expensive or impossible to obtain, the use of shale oil might increase.
b)
development of new technology that reduces the cost of extracting shale oil is impossible due to environmental dangers.
c)
if petroleum becomes more expensive due to dwindling supplies, shale oil use still won't be economically feasible since it is so expensive to produce.
d)
shale oil is an abundant resource and it is currently less expensive than petroleum to produce, but is not widely used.

The answer is A.

If political factors make petroleum expensive or impossible to obtain, the use of shale oil might increase.

a)If political factors make petroleum expensive or impossible to obtain, the use of shale oil might increase.

Explanation:

The importance of shel oil is that it is widely abundant in the US, the main problem is that to this day it is still too expensive, or at least more expensinve than oil, and it has a lot of enviromental hazards, so the positive does not outweights the negative, the only way in which production would increase is if political problems made petroleum expensive.

                the united states presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on tuesday, november 5, 1912. the election was a rare four-way contest.

                incumbent president william howard taft was renominated by the republican party with the support of its conservative wing. after former president theodore roosevelt failed to receive the republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the progressive party (nicknamed the "bull moose party"). it nominated roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. democrat woodrow wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, to the support of william jennings bryan, the three-time democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912. eugene v. debs, running for a fourth time, was the nominee of the socialist party of america.

                wilson won the election, gaining a large majority in the electoral college and winning 42% of the popular vote, while roosevelt won 27%, taft 23% and debs 6%. wilson became the only elected president from the democratic party between 1892 and 1932, and the second of only two democrats to be elected president between 1860 and 1932. this was the last election in which a candidate who was not a republican or democrat came second in either the popular vote or the electoral college, and the first election in which all 48 states of the contiguous united states participated.

hope this !

-austint1414