Oil Addiction

The real backbone of Brazil's "zero tolerance" policy is that the country has produced enough ethanol to achieve "oil independence." It can tell Chevron, BP, Total or any other oil company that even one drop of oil spilled is not tolerated.

President Obama has delivered another victory for clean energy innovation. Today his administration moved forward with new standards for cars, SUVs, and pick-up trucks that will almost double vehicle miles per gallon to 54.5 mpg by 2025.

While I commend the Obama administration and 13 automakers for boosting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy of cars and light-duty trucks sold in the U.S., it is only a baby step toward solving our real problem: oil addiction.

The Obama administration can't do much to lower the price of a gallon of gas, but it is on the cusp of a crucial decision that could help consumers come out ahead because they would need less gas.

As of this month the U.S. has fallen behind Romania in the overall performance of our broadband connectivity. Broadband access is a key part of the solution to our addiction to imported oil.

Consensus is building that we need to break our addiction to oil at home through individual action as well as by moving forward with government reform

We, vain Americans, blame BP and all the others out there, but it's our addiction providing our neighborhood dealer with the incentives. Our dependency on oil is an addiction we need to break.

When an alcoholic leaves a bar and drives into his third wreck, do you blame the bartender or the alcoholic? When a society addicted to fossil fuels experiences an oil spill, do you blame the company that drilled for oil or the society that uses it?

Life on earth is talking to us. The oil and ash and tsunamis and mudslides and tornadoes -- these are massive memos from the life that preceded us.

Petrol pours off each of us like an invisible sweat. The 20th century was propelled into the stratosphere on a geyser of oil, and nobody wanted to ask where it was coming from, or what it would cost us in the end.

How can our smoggiest city move past its addiction to oil once and for all? See what environmental leaders, policymakers, and eco celebs had to say at Tuesday's LA Get Off Oil Day rally.

While the tragedy in the Gulf is enormous, an even greater tragedy is failing to set a course for solving the underlying cause of this disaster-America's fossil fuel addiction.

There are a lot of voters in this country, and lots of us painfully aware of the impacts our oil addiction is having on real people, their livelihoods, and life-giving ecosystems.

Whatever harm is done by methane from this one well, the constant flow since then reminds us that methane from many sources is definitely reaching the air.

Today the Senate made the smart choice of voting down Sen. Murkowski's resolution to undermine the EPA's authority to reduce global warming pollution.

It's high time to start sifting through the wreckage for some learning so we can avoid similar catastrophes. But why do we need to wait for each fresh disaster to relearn the lessons we already know?

I worked in the oil fields when I was a teenager, and I remember the uneasy feeling that resulted when I heard company representatives claim oil exploration was great for society.

There's no denying that the rust-red plumes of oil and tar balls in the Gulf of Mexico are a potential ecological calamity for American Southern shore...

BP has been responsible for some of the worst oil-related accidents in our nation's history and has been charged with nothing more than misdemeanors. Incredible.

When it comes to gasoline America is, for the most part, like a serial drunk driver. We rail against the effects of the drink, but still go to the bar and guzzle the stuff.