Our Oil Addiction
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 For my first post, I want to explain why I feel this subject matter is so vitally important. For over the last century the United States has enjoyed fabulous growth and prosperity, fueled primarily by seemingly safe and abundant sources of fossil fuels, particularly oil. That is all good and well if the energy needs are indeed met with an ample supply of fuel to power an economy. However, what happens if these sources dry up or become too scarce and expensive to rely on? How do we power our lives then?
Those are the questions that I believe the US needs to take a cold, hard look at. Fueling our future with finite resources like oil is extremely short-sighted planning. Do we have a real plan in place to eliminate oil from our power supply? No. Are we less dependant on oil now, then say, 10 years ago? No. Is our government promising change? Yes, but do they do anything about it? Not really. Somehow, we need to break our addiction to oil now, before we learn the hard way just how dependant on it we really are.