The first step.While Google-ing for historical background on warnings of the addiction to oil that president Bush alluded to in his State of the Union speech, I realized it isn't significant as to who or how many discussed the dependence before. What is significant this time, is that it's coming from a president and administration with strong ties to the oil industry. Like many addicts, Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, name used to designate the U.S. government. The term arose in the War of 1812 and seems at first to have been used derisively by those opposed to the war. Possibly it was an expansion of the letters "U.S. has done this before. The easy-to-get-around corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards are the result of an earlier awakening. And just like many addicts, when prices fell and availability was assured, there wasn't a problem. Now that prices are at record highs and demand increases daily, the problem has re-emerged in the conscience of the body politick pol·i·tick intr.v. pol·i·ticked, pol·i·tick·ing, pol·i·ticks To engage in or discuss politics. [Back-formation from politicking, engaging in partisan political activity . Hopefully, we are serious this time about ending the addiction. The benefits of kicking this habit are numerous and have been well known for some time. Along with the global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. and health issues, it seems we just figured out that much of the drug's source is in unstable regions and that the profits are most likely financing people intent on doing us harm. Maybe now we have enough reasons to seriously revamp re·vamp tr.v. re·vamped, re·vamp·ing, re·vamps 1. To patch up or restore; renovate. 2. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example). 3. To vamp (a shoe) anew. n. the transportation industry in the U.S. The U.S. auto assemblers This is a list of assemblers. Hundreds of assemblers have been written; some notable examples are:
It is time for a government-industry initiative similar to the synthetic rubber synthetic rubber: see rubber. program in the 1940s to develop non-gasoline driven vehicles. The success of that program shows this type of cooperation can work. It has to be government driven because the auto companies are incapable of such an undertaking on their own. We should have a government commitment on the scale that President Kennedy initiated with the moon landing program. It has to be done. I really don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. how we break our dependence on oil, just that we do it. Whether it be batteries, agricultural derived fuel, solar, hydrogen, wind or rubber bands, we have to get it done. Now that we have acknowledged the problem, we have to act. |
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