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    We need to take a step back for a minute, and consider how many aspects of our lives are fueled by oil. Only then can the sheer magnitude of our addiction be understood. It is eye-opening to think of how one finite resource supports so many different vital ingredients to our well-being.

    We can thank oil for putting food on our tables. Every stage of the agricultural process uses fuel, from planting, the use of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, plus harvesting and transportation. Fresh produce often has to travel thousands of miles to the store, burning lots of fuel in the process. Without the help of cheap oil, our grocery store offerings would be severely limited or highly expensive.

    Oil fuels our transportation. Whether it is to work, to school, to the game, on vacation, through water, through sky, to space or anywhere for that matter, it gets us where we need to go. It carries our letters, postcards, and packages cross-country. It has allowed us and our goods the unprecedented ability to get from place to place.

    We can credit nearly everything we in our houses to oil. It’s amazing how many plastic products we rely upon: bottles, sacks, toys, computers, electronics…. Wood, drywall, shingles, carpet, windows, furnishings, appliances are all things that use up petroleum somewhere in the production process and must be delivered to construct our home, sweet home. Needless to say, oil dependency is everywhere in our homes, and most of us must not forget that it heats them as well.

    This is just this tip of the iceberg. I could sit here all day and list ways that oil is the lifeline of everything within our way of life. It is obvious that this topic is a large one indeed, intertwined in every nook and cranny of our existence and well-being.

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