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I have made steps to reduce the use of fossil fuels in my family. We have a fuel efficent car and we don't drive nearly as much as we used to. We also bike much more. For you to tell me I haven't made steps is just laughable because last I checked you don't know anything about me.
and of course I realize we can't just drop fossil fuels in a matter of days. Still it doesn't even look like we are trying to ween ourselves of off it. In 1984 the average mpg in a vehicle was 20, fast forward to 2004 and your looking at 20.4! A .4 increase! I'll be damned, internet was created along with the modern computer and cell phones yet we still hadn't figure out how to use less fuel.
You have a car, you can't use a car, it uses the oil we suck out of the gulf. You can't bike either, the tires are made of rubber which is a petroleum product.
You haven't done much at all. Truth be told, I've done more than you and LIVE almost on the gulf coast.
Wow, you are a lib. You can't see the forest for the trees. The average horsepower of a vehicle in 1980 was somewhere around 160. Now you have little cars leaving the factory pushing 240 with the same mileage. While the mileage hasn't increased much, the horsepower has increased dramatically. People don't want to drive around rinky dink cars. As long as thats the case, with the likes of Barbara Boxer flying around in her Learjet, we will always need fossil fuels. In 1984 how many options were out there that got the same mileage as a Prius?
If you don't reduce the need to zero you haven't done any good because we would STILL need to drill for oil! So congrats for not doing any good!
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