Since the first time one of my (elementary) school teachers talked to us about Petroleum, I learnt that it is a "Non-renewable energy", a fact that it seemed was not that important at all. There are a few people, powerless voices, who talk about this fact, but we usually ignore them and I was one of them.
A while ago I read about The Curve of Hubbert or Peak Oil, which explains the rate of production and other fossil fuels on the long term. The consequences, I concluded having followed the information in the article I read, could produce a collapse on our current style of life. It is not new information for me, but this time I understood that yes we use the petroleum as a luxury, and we have no intention to change our lifestyle in relation to Petroleum, and that this is something we cannot keep doing. We need a change. It is an obligatory, and yet we do not change anything. For me Petroleum and Luxury are binomial, I wanted to look into this in my own way through images.
Thus, I started to ask what...luxury means to my people, to my society, and to me. I tried to imagine what it could mean to those people whose lives have different conditions. Then I replaced the essence of that luxury with Petroleum: an element that conditions us to far reaching and unsuspected limits, it being an element that we squeeze to no limit, all day every day, an element at the crux of all our lives.
