Oil Demand Alternatives

The United States in particular relies on oil to an unbelievable extent, it has been estimated as much as 21 million barrels of crude is used and about 60% percent of that crude is imported. Since we as the consumer use this much, it is safe to say we are addicted right? Some may say so, other things put strains on the oil supply as well these may include lack of refineries or recently the political tensions of the oil producing Middle East countries i.e. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Africa.
I mentioned refineries did you know that there are less refineries today than there was 20 years ago? We are figuratively shooting ourselves in the foot we went from 300 to about 150.The last refinery being put into service in Louisiana in 1976. This has been referred to as social engineering mentioned here at this website. Some ways we can save ourselves from the restricting and expensive oil crunch are to practice alternative power solutions things such as utilizing the wind and sun to power the small creature comforts. Of course these things have there disadvantages. Some being solar energy( the use of the sun on technology to store electrical energy) now solar energy would best be used in only some areas whereas places like Great Britain, a climate with a lot of cloud cover this would not be the most advantageous location. Were wind farms (large windmills) may be more useful. We reviewed some subjects involving why we have high prices in fuel and we also talked about different means of power generation.

References cited
Alejandro Bodiro. “Why does gas keep rising? Greed, demand, politics blamed”
Free press blog April 30th 2007