Addicted to Oil - Part 2 of 5

Thomas Friedman Reporting.
http://shrinkster.com/gbv (Discovery.com)
No doubt about it. America is addicted to oil. We've had shortages & price hikes before, but this is definitely not your parents' energy crisis. Today, kicking the habit is an urgent necessity. Urgent because we're funding both sides on the war on terrorism...

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[ryanjames2007]

hey have you seen the movie "Who Killed The Electric Car"?

[Lacktardo]

Great vid ! I want one electric car ! Gas down here is becoming too expensive !

[maptlbh]

@Lacktardo Electric cars need recharging that burns TONS of coal in usa and it's really bad !!

[christo930]

I don't why people always hold up Brazil as an example of ethanol done right, it's not, as always, the devils are in the details. First of all, they burned down rain forest to clear fields to grow the shit, and they are effectively strip-mining the soil and their soil is depleting. There is a very big difference between dirt and soil.

[JFranks1019]

The US "found" (like our government didn't know it was there beforehand) more than $1 trillion-worth of Lithium deposits in Afghanistan. Sure that will come in handy for cars like these down the line. Oops, I forgot we went to Afghanistan to "combat terrorism." NOT to acquire their natural resources by force in order to boost our economic outlook in the coming decades as the world's oil reserves are gradually depleted. My mistake.

[epl0si0n]

6:30 - you idiots..... a battery powered car... what charges these batteries? comes from the power socket from burning coal and oils.... and to charge a battery you need to put in more energy than you get out.

further more, 180 lithium packs will do more damage a year than petrol will..........................­................

[TaintedFaith88]

I'm truly impressed by Americans. They have probably the HIGHEST levels of social capital in the fucking world. Call them naive or agressive... Americans love their nation, and individuals like those who search for solutions on their own out of passion and love for the nation are the LIFEBLOOD of America. Which other country can boast to have such independent individuals who try to do stuff for society without state-prompting? America will survive, as long as these people are around.

[MrEnergyCzar]

We'll be pulling our cars with animals.....if we're lucky...

[milkgodnl]

As Americans continue their CO2 prodution,

.. they will be riding camels to work.

[hop208]

I literally gasped when they said that modified Prius got 100mpg.

[BanjoNaps]

"As the utility provided by an energy source increases or decreases in comparison to the amount of utility expended to obtain it, so does the overall usage and utility provided by that energy source, over time."

Their is no control over the issue. What is happening is set in stone.

[BanjoNaps]

Agreed, that is also 100% unsustainable. Beef consumption has to be limited to the lands ability to grow grass. Flogging the land is dangerous no matter what the product is.