Insightful article from NPR on the real price of oil and an "Oil Defense" foreign policy.

One interesting quote:

a peer-reviewed study on the cost of keeping aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf from 1976 to 2007.  ...came up with a total, over three decades, of $7.3 trillion. Yes, trillion.

That's $23,548.5 dollars for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. And that's just for the aircraft carriers. We haven't even added in the cost of the wars, damage to the environment, and mental trauma.

Read the article.

Then read this McKinzie report about a possible strategy for finding some solutions to oil dependency.

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Francobarbeite.com
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