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Energy Security
Petroleum has been used by civilizations for
millennia. However, the dawn of petroleum as “black gold”
didn’t occur until the mid-Nineteenth Century. Modern
civilization would not be possible without petroleum and the thousands of
products derived from it. Every day things made from oil touch your life in
countless ways through products used in medicine, agriculture, personal
hygiene, computers and transportation, to mention but a few. Energy use and
economic growth are intimately linked. Thousands of businesses would cease
to exist without petroleum and its derivatives. Oil provides over 40% of
the energy Americans consume and more than 90% of its transportation
fuels. In fact, no price is more controversial or ubiquitous than the
price of gasoline.
Yet when it comes to understanding the critical role
petroleum plays in the global economy, politics and our daily lives, most
people are blissfully unaware. The average person has no idea how petroleum
is found, produced, transported and transformed into the products we depend
upon daily to keep the world’s economy functioning, in spite of the
fact that petroleum continues to play a central role in global business,
politics and economics.
Useful Links:
Want
to learn more about biofuels? Check out various
PowerPoint presentations given at the 2007 Farm to Fuel Summit in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Biofuels: Think Outside the Barrel.
Watch the online video of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla's lecture on the
importance of ethanol.
David
Adams' Energy Blog: The Fueling Station
This
blog aims to provide practical news on the latest alternative energy
solutions.
http://www.willyoujoinus.com
Sponsored by Chevron, the website provides a medium to learn, discuss, and
voice your opinions on alternative energy solutions.
Ethanol Facts: http://www.drivingethanol.org/
General Motors: Live Green Go Yellow
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