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The U.S. consumes 7.5 billion barrels of oil a year, and each drop represents a larger threat to our national security and economic well-being. 

 

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Chevron:

Latest News Analysis…

Brazil’s achievement more important than foreign-oil relief

By Peter Forman
New York--Brazil and pundits acclaim Brazil’s achievement of freedom from foreign oil through the use of bio-fuels like ethanol.

It has not done so but it has accomplished something much more important.

Some background first…    [Continued here]

 

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Chevron:

A Letter from MBO Chairman & Founder Peter Forman...READ

MYTH #1:      Nuclear Power, Wind, and Solar (even though good sources of energy) will reduce America’s oil and energy dependencies     FACT...

 

MYTH #2:      The solution is “drill, baby, drill”   FACT...

 

MYTH #3:      Our problem is consumption of foreign oil; not all oil         FACT...

 

MYTH #4:      When we buy oil, the money comes back here anyway     FACT…

 

MYTH #5:      How unlucky we are that oil just happens to sit under repressive, regressive regimes FACT…

 

MYTH #6:      Renewable energy cannot solve job loss                FACT…

 

MYTH #7:      The transportation sector is not the main cause of our dependence on oil              FACT…

 

MYTH #8:      Our only alternative is electric vehicles     FACT...


MYTH #9:     
Ethanol has caused increased food prices.              FACT…

 

MYTH #10:    No country is attempting a 100% electric-powered infrastructure  FACT…

 

MYTH #11:    The problem is “Big Oil”    FACT...

 

MYTH #12:    Free markets can solve this problem or the government can solve this problem; not both FACT…

 

MYTH #13:    The government should never require the car makers to run on Flex Fuel FACT…

 

MYTH #14:    America’s economic and international might is invincible   FACT…

 

MYTH #15:    It is the speculator’s fault             FACT...

 

 

 

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