The time is now to evolve beyond our fossil fuel dependence.

In an age of ever increasing consumption of limited resources, it is important to find creative and conscious solutions for our energy needs. Not only do we need to use less energy, but we need to start producing appropriate fuels – fuels created with minimal environmental and social degradation.

WHY WE NEED TO STOP USING PETROLUEM!

WE ARE RUNNING OUT – WE DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE.
THE OIL PEAK IS LOOMING!

• It has taken us about 200 years to use up the oil reserves that took hundreds of millions of years for the earth to create.
• The looming oil peak/ production peak will cause oil prices to skyrocket. This will be beyond the horrors of the OPEC crisis from the 1970’s.
• With only 4.5% of the world’s population and 2% of the global oil reserves, the United States consumes 25% of the world’s oil. We are the world’s largest oil consumer. (U.S. Department of Energy)
• While the amount of oil left in our earth decreases, our rate of consumption keeps increasing; since 1960, U.S. oil use has doubled! Now, half of the vehicles sold in this country are SUV’s which generally consume a lot more oil. (Worldwatch Institute)
  (For more info, see www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net & www.globalpublicmedia.com/sections/energy/oil.depletion.php)

GLOBAL WARMING

• Our planet’s temperature is increasing from an exponential increase in the amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) we are unnaturally releasing into our atmosphere.
• With only 4.5% of the world’s population, the U.S. is responsible for 22% of greenhouse gas emissions (which cause global warming).
• 1/3 of our country’s CO2 emissions come from gas-guzzling cars and light trucks.
• Global massive deforestation is not only adding more CO2 to our atmosphere but is also ridding our earth of the natural CO2 balancer – trees, which take in CO2 and release Oxygen. (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

• Asthma – from soot and smog-forming pollutants
• Reproductive Problems, Birth Defects, and Neurological Illnesses – from toxic chemicals like arsenic, benzene, and formaldehyde in petroleum
• Cancer – from carcinogens like benzene
• Respiratory Illness and Early Death – from heart and respiratory problems caused by tiny particles from the exhaust of petroleum based fuel that can lodge deep in the lungs
  

ENVIRONMENTAL, ECOSYSTEM, AND INDIGENOUS CULTURE DESTRUCTION

• Oil Spills –We can all remember the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989 where over 11 million gallons of oil were spilled. We don’t hear about more remote oil spills, like in the Khant-Mansy Autonomous District in Western Siberia where as many as 1,000 oil spills occur every day.
• When it comes down to it, every process of extracting oil from deep within the earth has a great potential to cause destruction. Rainforests and other ecosystems are destroyed from oil drilling. Is it more important to extract a limited amount of oil (that will burn into pollution and CO2) than to allow ancient rainforests to continue living? Let us also not forget the simplest matters - it is dangerous for oil to touch our skin or to breathe it as it burns. Oil reeks of toxins, cancer-causing agents, and global ecocatastrophe.
  

AN ONGOING WAR OVER THE REMAINING OIL LEFT IN OUR EARTH

• The largest oil field in the earth is under Saudi Arabia.
• The second largest is under Iraq.
• 36% of our imported oil comes from these two countries.
• As of January 18, 2005, a minimum of 15,365 human beings have died since bombings in Iraq starting on January 1st, 2003 (www.iraqbodycount.net). The maximum death-toll estimate is 17,582.
• Prove to me that the Iraq War is not connected to the oil under the ground of Iraq…

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