A PowerPoint Presentation modified from basics taken from John Armentrout and others on the AAPG Website and elsewhere. The presentation addresses the basics of oil and gas traps and seismic detection. It covers the demographics of people going into the petroleum industry and compares demand, usage and product cost with the availability of qualified people to run the business. Toward the end the presentation broaches environmental issues, foreign policy including the petroleum context of the Afganistan and Iraq adventures, the quixotic gauntlet of ANWR actually solving energy problems and a host of other topics of potential interest to middle and high school students. It even looks at corporate behavior in the petroleum business, the effect of mergers and takeovers on the industry, the short-term focus of corporations and the patterns of frivolous energy usage in the US irrespective of political leaning.