The consequences of our almost hopeless relationship with oil are clearly on everybody’s minds these days — and for good reason. The disaster on the Deepwater Horizon and its incomprehensible effects on both the ocean ecosystem and people’s livelihoods, for likely decades to come, has hit the message home that our oil addiction holds us all at its mercy.
And that’s just no way to live… being at the complete mercy of something else somehow seems un-American, no? Aren’t we the society that sculpts its own destiny? Don’t we ‘boldly go’? If the results from a new survey done by the Consumer Federation of America are accurate, it seems we haven’t lost that mentality.