Tell President Obama: lead the way to less oil.
The costs of oil are on the rise—from persistently high and volatile gas prices to the devastating impacts of global warming. Cutting oil use, not drilling more, is the common-sense solution. We can’t let oil companies and their allies continue to block progress on smart, effective strategies that have been proven to reduce our oil consumption. Tell the President: in your first 100 days, put us on a path to make historic oil savings a reality.


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Jeremy Martin, Ph.D.
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Trucks, buses, planes, ships, farm equipment, as well as autos depend on oil. Have we figured out a way to avoid running out of this nonrenewable resource, and to minimize its impact on our environment, from drilling, to refining, delivery, and use? —J. Fishman, Scottsdale, AZ

The mounting costs of oil for our climate and economy presents a far more urgent challenge than a dwindling oil supply. Regardless of where our oil comes from, it causes a host of problems that we can best address by using less. If we do nothing in the United States to improve efficiency or to invest in alternatives to oil, we will consume 22 million barrels of oil every day by 2035. The UCS "Half the Oil" plan shows how we can use 11 million fewer barrels of oil every single day by 2035—forestalling the worst effects of climate change, putting money back in our pockets, creating jobs, and cutting toxic air pollution. MORE

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We’ve seen cleaner cars, but what about cleaner fuels?
Think cleaner fuels are a long way off? Think again, the first commercial scale cellulosic biofuels plant is about to begin producing fuel in Florida this month. This is an exciting first step to making cleaner fuels for our cars and trucks a reality. And this is just the beginning. By 2030, UCS analysts predict the United States can produce billions of gallons of fuel each year from sustainably harvested biomass resources, such as plant material and animal waste.  MORE

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