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I am sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I have been extremely busy and been waiting to have enough time to give you the thorough reply you deserve.
I agree completely with your assessment of the unsustainability of modern human…"
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Ruben posted a blog postThe cost of our oil addiction is at least 8 times greater than the cost of investing in its solutions
"...researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimate the combined economic costs of U.S. oil dependence to be more than $5 trillion (2008 dollars) since 1970. In 2008 alone, the combined cost was nearly $600 billion. In 2009, a year in which oil prices averaged just $62 per barrel and U.S. oil consumption was significantly reduced compared to 2005-2007 levels; the United States still ran a $200 billion trade deficit in crude oil and petroleum products. In that context, the government…See More
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The cost of our oil addiction is at least 8 times greater than the cost of investing in its solutions
"...researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimate the combined economic costs of U.S. oil dependence to be more than $5 trillion (2008 dollars) since 1970. In 2008 alone, the combined cost was nearly $600 billion. In 2009, a year in which oil prices averaged just $62 per barrel and U.S. oil consumption was significantly reduced compared…
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Irresponsible Narrowminded Management of the Gulf Oil Spill
Posted by Ruben on May 23, 2010 at 11:16am
Aviation Biofuels Industry Materializing in Brazil
This article sounds very nice and dandy IF they really do use agricultural waste and biomasss, not crops as we have done with the mostly unsustainable corn fields for ethanol in the US. I fear that powerful greed and short term profit fever may open a new Pandoras box extending the source of biofuel from waste to crops. That could threaten the dissaperance of one the "lungs" of the planet, the Amazon Forest. Let's hope the GREED virus is contained… Continue
Posted by Ruben on May 23, 2010 at 10:32am
Electrifying transportation, A Viable Lasting Technological Solution to Prevent New Oil Rig Disaters
Posted by Ruben on May 23, 2010 at 10:01am
About the Oil Spill In The Gulf of Mexico
What is more important, our convenience, cheap gas and our don’t-you-dare-to-question WAY OF LIFE or the PLANET’S FATE (and with it our own fate)? What will it take to get us off our complacency and complicity in this crime against the planet? No guilt trip intended, I am calling for collective responsibility.… Continue
Posted by Ruben on May 3, 2010 at 11:30pm
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