Imagine living on an island that is the size of six football fields in Alaska with temperatures of -30 degrees fahrenheit or colder.  Now imagine living there for months on end. Would you survive? Thousands of people do this as a career and drill oil in these crazy conditions so that America can have access to modern energy.  Many of these Islands are man made by creating a barrier and layering tons and tons of gravel and are used for one specific purpose, oil. Also, oil drilling can be extremely cost rewarding or costly depending on the progress of a specific day of drilling.  The hard work that these men put in every day is the reason that you can drive a car or have an asphalt driveway, or do almost anything you could think of during day because oil plays a huge role in modern life.