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Oil can be found under Southwest Asia because millions of years ago the area was under water. When the Iranian and Arabian tectonic plates hit, they created spaces where oil was formed and trapped.

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Southwest Asia has a lot of oil because deep underground, in most areas, there is a type of rock that they drill through. Inside that rock is oil. So all around the area of southwest Asia there are these "oasis" of oil inside of rocks that they drill out.

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Oil = electricity, plastics, fuel (including gasoline), fertilizers, medicine, pesticides, synthetic fibers

Now the real question is, what is the importance of the above in southwest asia?

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are you kidding me? oil is sooo important becaus ethats what gasoline is, you know the stuff for your cars. are you stupid

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