| United States burns 20.4 million barrels of oil per | | | | wreaking havoc on our weather systems. |
| day. We are damaging our environment beyond | | | | Aside from the frightening global warming issue, I |
| repair by burning copious amounts of | | | | am also deeply concerned about our attitude with |
| hydrocarbons into our atmosphere. According to | | | | regard to consumption. Up until just last year, the |
| Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth", global warming is | | | | US was the worlds largest consumer of natural |
| melting the ice shelf and global sea levels could | | | | resources. According to David Suzuki's "Sacred |
| rise by over 20 feet. Looking at the global | | | | Balance" (I absolutely LOVED this book - |
| temperature data and it's correlation to | | | | everyone should read it), since 1940, Americans |
| greenhouse gas emissions, I believe there is | | | | alone have used up as large a share of the Earth's |
| indisputable evidence that burning hydrocarbons is | | | | mineral resources as all previous generations put |
| responsible for most of the global warming that is | | | | together. |