Don't be silly, we can make all of those products with wind power.
Uhhhhh, can't we make that stuff outa ethanol???
Very Big oil.
The left wants oil companies to be small provide less jobs and make less profit.
Can anyone explain that to me?
Who needs toilet seats anyway? If the Russians don't need them, neither do we!
And another: in Washington State, road repairs have been cut back or even cancelled - because asphalt is a by-product of oil and costs have gone up incredibly. So I guess imay be just as well noone can afford to drive - except that includes trucks with food and fuel etc.
Oh, gee what a convincing list! Not misleading at all! We must not use much oil on gasoline at all!
Or perhaps if you weren't trying to mislead to argue for your side, you'd mention that 95% of the products you listed total less than 15% of gasoline used by the U.S.
Maybe you'd even show a pie chart or something showing that oil for gasoline is 44%, add diesel fuel (trucks) and heating oil at 19% and you've got 63%.
But no, you're not honest because you can't afford to be. Because reality is not on your side.
hey, scooter H -
you are the typical handwringer. unfortunately for you, i really like the line: there are liars, damn liars and statistics.
numbers are just numbers.
these are the things we actually use - regardless of percentage. namely plastics and well, cosmetics.
tell me, mr. facts: will you use wind power to make the plastic keyboard you are typing on?
i think not.
the percentage arguement over this is just moronic.
so is not going after our own oil while we think of an alternative.
fact that.
Ya know, when you cook you use very little salt in a stew compared to the other ingredients, but it makes all the difference in the final outcome . '
It's the same with the use of oil. All those small percentages are extremely important in our overall economic picture.
Still Unreal,
The U.S. produces about 41% of the petroleum that it uses. Enough to cover everything left over after you exclude the amount used in transportation and home heating oil. If we want a bit more another 10% comes from Canada. Heck another 7% comes from Mexico.
So yeah, we're still going to need oil even if automobiles ran on pixie dust, but if we greatly reduced how much oil is used by automobiles we'd be practically free of imports.
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