Why we need alternatives to oil by Sura, November 7
An article by John Schmid in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on soaring oil prices tells us why we need alternatives
“The U.S., with 5% of the world’s population, burns nearly one-quarter of all the oil - 20.6 million barrels a day in 2006…”
According to the article, traders on the oil markets have reacted to:
- A bombing in a previously peaceful province of Afghanistan, which killed scores of people
- An attack on a Yemeni oil pipeline
- President Musharraf of Pakistan declaring a state of emergency, fraying ties with the U.S.
- Last month’s skirmish over the Turkish border when Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq killed 13 Turkish soldiers
- Iran’s nuclear program prompted the U.S. to step up sanctions against Iran, further unnerving traders
Renewable energy will allow us to be free, politically and economically from the countries who have oil. Maybe it would keep them safer from our reach too.
7 Nov 2007 | 9:52 am | Environmental Sustainability
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elysse wrote:
November 11, 2007 at 7:03 pm
I know that Milwaukee County recently adopted Supervisor Dimitrijevic’s “Green Print” plan to make Milwaukee County operations more green. Does the City of Milwaukee have anything like that?