Which brings me to some tips from Ranger Rick and the National Wildlife Federation about how to broach the subject
of oil addiction and environmental devastation with your little ones.
To greatly accelerate the move to vehicle electrification — as required by the seriousness of the environmental and economic challenges
of oil addiction — he believes the public needs to be shaken into a new heightened level of awareness.
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).
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.
The environmental impact is only one cost
of our oil addiction.
Not exact matches
The company's ultimate goal
of eliminating the world's
oil addiction is a good one and some
of its innovations toward that end are indeed clever.
This is not an easy issue but certainly it is a great opportunity to slowly get out
of our
addiction to
oil money.
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..?
Our energy consumption funds mountaintop removal coal mining while our
oil addiction fouls the air and laces the pockets
of oppressive dictatorships.
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.
Store bought plantain chips by the Inca brand are my # 1
addiction right now but I am very wary about eating too many because
of the palm
oil.
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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.
By the end
of the year, though, dreams
of a sustainable, domestically produced fuel that could help end our
addiction to
oil had deflated.
Some tampa dating sites serious
addiction their form
of bias - the
oil reach and significantly increase the like the other, as if you were drawing a smile.
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The tipping on its side
of the crouching nude in Michele Bubacco's
oil - and - collage
Addiction recalls Sigmar Polke's inverted or upside - down images.
It's time to realize the cost
of our global
addiction to palm
oil.
; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our
oil addiction; the fact is that the single most common object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 %
of the game fish
of the oceans is gone.
; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our
oil addiction; the fact is that the single most commen object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 %
of the game fish
of the oceans is gone.
And by placing their short sighted greed, ignorance, and stupidity first, the unholy polluting coalition
of oil producers and coal burners has told the world that they don't care who else they hurt by continuing their dirty
addiction, killing reefs and drowning islands and coasts, and imperiling millions in poor countries.
And yet, declaring polar bears endangered would have great effects that would help push the country off our coal and
oil addiction, probably saving thousands
of human lives per year in the US alone.
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).
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.»
Is America's
Oil Addiction an Accident
of History?
There's lots
of overlap between ending our
oil addiction in the United States and combatting climate change, with setting a price on carbon (regardless
of the mechanism used, be it cap and trade, a carbon tax, or something
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.
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.
(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-...]
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.
If President Obama chooses the dirty needle (approves the Keystone XL pipeline) it is game over (for the earth's climate) because it will confirm that Obama was just greenwashing, like the other well —
oiled coal — fired politicians with no real intention
of solving the
addiction (
of fossil fuels).
I am not willing to be the latest in a succession
of Presidents telling you we're going to end our
addiction to
oil.
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.
In his State
of the Union address last week, President Bush said the United States needs to reduce its «
addiction» to
oil and called for more investment in solar and other renewable energy technologies.
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).
ENERGYSTOCKS.COM three - part interview by Bill Paul, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author
of «Future Energy: How the New
Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics and Portfolios» with what he grandly calls «Foremost Plug - in Car Expert Felix Kramer» Explosion
of Hybrid & Electric Cars Coming in 2010 - 2012 http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=898 New Technology May Cut Gas Use Up to 50 % in EXISTING Cars http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=907 How Next U.S. President Will End America's
Oil Addiction http://energytechstocks.com/wp/?p=909
Or do we let the forces
of obstruction — led by Big
Oil and special - interest polluters — win, ensuring America's continued
addiction to the dirty, unsafe energy
of the 19th century?
«As religious leaders, we have a special way
of dealing with issues
of addiction — and
oil is an
addiction for our societies.
Because Toyota has pioneered the very hybrid engine technology that can help rescue not only our economy from its
oil addiction (how about 500 miles per gallon
of gasoline?)
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.
This is a bill for energy independence after a devastating
oil spill, a bill to hold polluters accountable, a bill for billions
of dollars to create the next generation
of jobs, and a bill to end America's
addiction to foreign
oil.»
Luckily, McDermott has three Priuses, so
oil addiction isn't much
of an issue for him.
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.
He previously worked for Rainforest Action Network and is the author
of Coming Clean: Breaking America's
Addiction to
Oil and Coal.
Reframing the debate in this way fails to get at the true crux
of the problem: we have a dirty
oil addiction, and the
oil industry is inadequately regulated to the detriment
of people's health.
Since that serves to argue against Peak
Oil (which is better supported than any IPCC model, I might add), I think it harms the long - term objective of getting off our oil addicti
Oil (which is better supported than any IPCC model, I might add), I think it harms the long - term objective
of getting off our
oil addicti
oil addiction.
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.»
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.