Renewable Energy – Offshore Wind, NOT Offshore Oil
EarthPolicy.org recently posted an article about “Offshore Wind, NOT Offshore Oil”…
…and I thought based on our previous posts “Buying Eight Track Tapes in an iPad World”, this would be a great follow-up for you to read.
It was created on May 12, 2010 by Janet Larsen for EarthPolicy.org, and it starts:
“The enormously devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is just one reminder that stretching out an addiction to a polluting and planet-warming fossil fuel poses risks to our health, our environment, and our economy. ”
“U.S. oil production peaked in 1970 at 9.6 million barrels per day. Since then production has dropped by almost half and now supplies less than 30 percent of domestic consumption. In 2009, the United States spent nearly $200 billion on oil imports to make up the difference.”
Continue reading this on the EarthPolicy web site…
