Sentences with phrase «cost of our oil addiction»

The environmental impact is only one cost of our oil addiction.

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.

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).

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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.

It's time to realize the cost of our global addiction to palm oil.