Sentences with phrase «addiction to oil»
A Vivid Reminder that Our Addiction to Oil Funds Dictators Colonel Muammar Gaddafi doesn't have that many friends
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GAS2 is bridging the gap between gear heads and green heads, with news and stories that emphasize the best parts of ultra-efficient transportation technology while helping the world come to terms with its crippling addiction to oil.
The hybrid technology offered by the GM Volt is what America needs to break its addiction to oil.
It baffles me that President Bush would rather go to Saudi Arabia twice in four months and beg the Saudi king for an oil price break than ask the American people to drive 55 miles an hour, buy more fuel - efficient cars or accept a carbon tax or gasoline tax that might actually help free us from what he called our «addiction to oil.»
After calling America's «addiction to oil» one of the most serious challenges in America today, President Bush renewed calls for a higher mandatory alternative fuel standard and higher fuel efficiency standards for motor vehicles in an effort to conserve 8.5 billion gallons of gas in the next 10 years (click above for the entire speech).
The problem is that we have adopted a living arrangement so hopelessly centered around cars and incessant motoring and one of the consequences is an addiction to oil, which we happen to have a declining supply of in our own land.
The Automotive X PRIZE's goal is to «inspire a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles [100 + MPGe] that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change.»
He previously worked for Rainforest Action Network and is the author of Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal.
This is a dangerous possibility, as is prolonging our addiction to oil.
Even if the climate bill is eventually approved, the disaster in the Gulf will serve as a lasting and ugly reminder of the price we paid for our addiction to oil.
Indeed, corn is not the optimal basis for providing all the ethanol fuel we will need, but, as the President says, biofuels are needed to reduce our addiction to oil and to slow climate change — and the emerging biofuels market is spurring major investments in using biomass other than corn to make ethanol.
We can spend billions to build this pipeline and the new tar sands mines required to fill it or we can invest those dollars in solutions that end our addiction to oil, improve the health of our communities and stop climate change.
These vehicles underscore that if President Bush is serious about curbing our addiction to oil, there's plenty more that he could do - right now.
Today we are going to examine how new technologies and advanced fuels for passenger vehicles could help end our nation's addiction to oil.
MICHAEL BRUNE»S NEW BOOK: The executive director of Rainforest Action Network http://www.ran.org is the author of the just - published «Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal» (Sierra Club Books, $ 14.95 — we'll soon have a link to it at http://www.calcars.org/books.html).
We outline a second speech by the President, starting with, «I am not willing to be the latest in a succession of Presidents telling you we're going to end our addiction to oil.
I am not willing to be the latest in a succession of Presidents telling you we're going to end our addiction to oil.
George Bush confessed our addiction to oil.
With all these steps, we are bringing America closer to the day when we can end our addiction to oil, which will allow us to become better stewards of the environment.
-- Secondly, I would like to see us kick our current addiction to oil, and adopt clean energy sources.
President Obama was right when he campaigned on the idea that the country has to abandon its «shock to trance» approach to energy policy and investment if it ever hopes to cut the addiction to oil pointed out by his predecessor, not to mention the persistent allure of coal («clean» or otherwise).
The film takes an eye - opening look at America's addiction to oil, from its corporate conspiracy beginnings to its current monopoly today, and explains clearly and simply how we can end it.
Fermenting the sugars in the country's abundant sugar cane produced a motor fuel that lowered carbon dioxide emissions, and many saw Brazil as a model for how the world could shed its addiction to oil, creating jobs along the way.
By the end of the year, though, dreams of a sustainable, domestically produced fuel that could help end our addiction to oil had deflated.
The sooner the world overcomes it's addiction to oil and heroin, the sooner Islam will return to the desert sands from whence it came.
Big, ambitious politics means doing «something about the high cost of health care,» ending our «addiction to oil,» bringing «our brave men and women» home from Iraq.
This is not an easy issue but certainly it is a great opportunity to slowly get out of our addiction to oil money.
Greentech Media is reporting about another algae startup that thinks it has the secret formula to turn pond scum into the answer to curing our addiction to oil.
Not exact matches
Can we not ease are current addictions of crude oil and slowly begin utilizing nature's real means of naturally occurring plant - based factories known to be medicinally favorable and industriously capable in taking the place of carcinogenic crude oil..?
I have a fairly serious addiction to sundried tomatoes and to aubergine (WHY do so many recipes insist on frying aubergine in oil to cook it when it tastes so amazing on its own!?)
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How to Cook Eggs Without Oil 5 Ways Savory Gluten Free Zucchini Pancake Recipe: Ditch That Sugary Breakfast Addiction
You also could skip making the sauce and just use the roasting method with olive oil, salt and pepper, and maybe some fresh or dried herbs... and then you wouldn't have a honey mustard addiction to worry about!
Bringing awareness to oil addiction and car culture, while highlighting the vulnerability of cyclists on the road.
«His weak green light to renewable fuels, refusal to cut fossil fuel subsidies and his call for further imports, completely undermines last year's recognition of the need to end the nation's oil addiction,» she said.
Steve: Well, since we've been comparing our oil issues with an addiction, it's kind of ironic that the solution being proposed by drilling in the Arctic is to find more of the stuff we're addicted to.
Then, we could challenge each other to think and speak comprehensively and not simply talk about corn - based ethanol to make us believe we have an «answer» to oil addiction and a plan to recycle carbon.
CBD oil is an oil made from Cannabidiol a chemical compound that is found in cannabis, it is sometimes used to treat addiction and epilepsy.
Besides knowing that it's loaded with extremely active and beautiful ingredients, this face oil is one that I constantly wanted to use because my jasmine addiction is real.
It's time to realize the cost of our global addiction to palm oil.
David Roberts at Grist echoes Joe Romm in hoping that the petro - eruption on the Gulf seafloor finally fires up the American public on the need, if not to act on climate, at least to absorb the full costs of our oil addiction.
For decades, our culture has struggled with two addictions, to oil and to despair.
In an e-mail, longtime clean - air campaigner Frank O'Donnell mused that the law has had a far greater impact on American society, noting: «It is not as if the oil embargoes of the 1970s got us to kick our oil addiction.»
With the BP oil spill fresh in everyone's minds, and the call for solutions to end the collective petroleum addiction rising louder than ever, it's tempting to just say let's just stop using oil.
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You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction.
More than hydrogen fuel cells (perpetually 10 to 15 years off) and cellulosic ethanol (ditto), electric cars represent a promising near - term solution to America's oil addiction.
(Okay, maybe not some oil company CEOs...) And, this is a good key agenda item for next President, to move past the current occupant of the Oval Office's identification of our «oil addiction» to actual action to fight the -LSB-...]
Gasoline indirect cost calculated based on International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA), The Real Price of Gasoline, Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 34, and updated using ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities Associated with Global Climate Change: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: September 2004), ICTA, Gasoline Cost Externalities: Security and Protection Services: An Update to CTA's Real Price of Gasoline Report (Washington, DC: January 2005), Terry Tamminen, Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), p. 60, and Bureau for Economic Analysis, «Table 3 — Price Indices for Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Purchases,» GDP and Other Major Series, 1929 — 2007 (Washington, DC: August 2007); U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), This Week in Petroleum (Washington, DC: various issues).
A country that in spite of everything science tells us, what the changing weather tells us, is determined to squeeze every bit of oil out of the ground to grab the last of the profits to feed an addiction that we know is destroying a future from coming generations.