Does the drilling of oil have a relationship to earthquakes, global warming?

Oil drilling, and the fairly new shale oil has been going on over a hundred years. I see oil as a lubricant. Does it lubricate the humongous plates that shift during earthquakes, makeing the more brittle? Surmising, I am. Also, when that much oil is taken out, it doesnt return to the ground but to the sky. Ozone depletion? Global warming? Or is it the ancient gods, using man again to torment one another for their entertainment, why they sit back and watch? Just a thought, stay on course now, We are talking about something being taken away from the earth, used and sent away, but not replaced. I sense unbalance of some kind here. THINK about it.Does the drilling of oil have a relationship to earthquakes, global warming?
No, there is no correlation between drilling for oil and earthquakes.





The plates float on the molten rock in the upper layer of mantle. Earthquakes occur when the plates collide or slide past one another. The oil in the upper 2% of the crust (where we are able to reach) doesn't have any effect on this phenomenon. In fact, if oil did ';lubricate'; the earth, we'd be in a bad situation! We would have shifting roads, buildings, and constant movement all the time!





As far as global warming -- you have touched on a political issue here. The Earth is goes through cycles of warming and cooling, and most scientists agree that the Earth is entering a warming cycle. The debate is about whether the activities of man are contributing to this. My personal opinion is that the Earth is so vast and the forces in nature are so powerful, we are puny weaklings in comparison. The effects on the Earth of hurricanes and volanoes are far, far greater than anything man does.





According to law of Conservation of Matter, matter can neither be created or destroyed -- it simply changes forms. The Earth has been beautifully handling this for a long time.





That said, people do need to be good stewards of the Earth. Do not litter, do not waste resources, and do your best to minimize your contribution to pollution.Does the drilling of oil have a relationship to earthquakes, global warming?
Drilling for oil does not have anything to do with earthquakes or global warming, but taking the oil out of the earth does. For example; Take a round object such as a ball with a very thick wall. Let say that within this wall is a liquidy substance which holds constant pressure from the inside out. This pressure also consist of gases or some type of airy pressure. First of all, when you puncture that wall, the air or gas is going to escape as well as the liquidy substance inside. And then you pump what ever else is inside out. Then, you put pressure which is not constant arount the out side of your sphere or round object. As you put this pressure on the outside for a long period of time, you will notice the wall of this sphere will start to give. There's your earthquakes, terrain changes,mountains moving, earth shifting. Now you put the oil in a terarrium where there is a perfect enviroment. Over a period of time, watch what happens to the glass around the terarrium. You will find that in that terarrium, it will drop less moisture and become polluted so eventually, you can not see through the glass. Now, take our earth, Compound what you did with the terarrium 1000 times or maybe a million times with smoke, chermicals, explosions, fires, exhaust, and the many other thing WE have done to this earth and tell me. Do you think all this drilling of oil has anything to do with earthquakes or global warming?
no, it would be like saying a misquto killing someone by draining its blood.
Removing oil does allow the weight of the rock to shift downward, but so far it hasn't been bad. They drill in So California, apparently without 'the BIG one, so far...


Burning oil releases greenhouse gasses that have been sequestered for millenia. We need to find new ways of sequestering it. How about making products out of calcium carbonate extracted out of sea water? Then we just need to feed the diatoms out there.
GET REAL! Where do you get this nonsense from?
it does have a relation to earthquakes because they are taking something out of the ground and leaving open spaces in there for shifts in the tectonic plates to occur more easily.... global warming, im not sure...
I have been asking myself the same question, as you said, is it a lubricant or insulator used to protect the land masses from the nuclear core of the earth and if not, aren't we changing the mass of the earth and the gravitational pull of the Sun. I believe so and this could be a big reason for our change in climate. Mostly everything we use here on this planet stays here, but, oil has weight and once used that weight is gone.


Then there is the huge caverns left under the crust of the earth, that in time, may collapse inward, but, money makes a big difference, even if they do know that this could be a possibility. They wouldn't stop! They are not stopping it now when do know that it is having an effect on our climate.