"To a certain extent, the sky's the limit."

words of a Chevron employee while standing on a floating oil rig, 160 miles from the coast, 7000 feet above the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico, that pumps 65,000 barrels/day from depths to 32,000 feet below the platform
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Americans constitute 4% of the global population, yet we consume 25% of the world's oil (which is 2 times more than China and India combined).
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"We operate like we have oil because we used to have oil." - T. Boone Pickens
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(stuff I learned from a T.V. special about oil consumption on ABC)
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Sounds like we have to turn a lot of stuff around.
Go ride a bike this weekend.
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A political cartoon for the weekend:

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