A campaign working to end America's oil addiction, stop oil wars, and curb global warming by convincing the auto industry to dramatically improve fuel efficiency and eliminate vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. Launched by RAN, Global Exchange, and the Ruckus Society in 2003, the campaign is pushing automakers to break their addiction to oil, create more jobs, and meet consumer demand for green cars by producing more fuel efficient vehicles.
Most Americans know we’ve got a problem: an addiction to oil that taxes the environment, entangles us in costly foreign policies, and threatens the nation’s long-term stability. But few are informed or empowered enough to do much about it.
Most Americans know we’ve got a problem: an addiction to oil that taxes the environment, entangles us in costly foreign policies, and threatens the nation’s long-term stability. But few are informed or empowered enough to do much about it.
Antonia Juhasz is an American author and political activist. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus, and a fellow at Oil Change International.
She was the author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time in 2006, Alternatives to Economic Globalization: a Better World Is Possible, and the article "Ambitions of Empire: the Radical Reconstruction of Iraq’s Economy" for which she received the 2004 Project Censored award. In 2008, she published The Tyranny of Oil.
An overly alarmist look at the world that appears to be saying all the political and commercial systems are corrupt, elections are corrupt, there are oil wars being waged due to peak oil, conspiracy theories, incompetence theories, etc. Not that there isn't truth to what they're saying, just that they're being overly alarmist and hypestery.
Gas 2.0 digs into the viscous world of biofuels and the fast-paced transit arena, exploring the technologies and substances that will power our transportation future.
Gas 2.0 is fueling the revolution, offering insight, analysis, resources, and personal experiences rooted in one unifying goal: to move beyond petroleum as a fuel source.
This website provides a valuable set of resources on energy and climate change, designed specifically for the people who work with and for local governments. The Post Carbon Cities program helps local governments understand the challenges posed by energy and climate uncertainty, and provides resources for elected officials, planners, managers and others to develop plans and responses appropriate to their communities.
The Oil Depletion Protocol is an international agreement that will enable nations of the world to cooperatively reduce their dependence on oil. It was proposed by Dr. Colin Campbell, a prominent petroleum geologist and founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), in 1996.
By agreeing to reduce oil imports and exports by a specified amount each year, about 2.6 percent, signatory nations will help mitigate the negative consequences of an over-reliance on cheap oil and help prepare for a global decline in the world’s oil supply. The premise of the Protocol is inherently straightforward: oil importing nations would agree to reduce their imports by an agreed-upon yearly percentage, referred to as the World Oil Depletion Rate, while oil producing nations would agree to reduce their rate of production by their National Depletion Rate. This simple and sensible formula will produce, in effect, a global rationing system. If the entire world adopted the Protocol, global consumption of oil would decline by almost 3 percent per annum, thus stabilizing prices, preserving the resource base, and reducing competition for remaining supplies.
The Oil Enforcement Agency was founded on January 31, 2006, by an act of civic charter following the 217th State of the Union Address. In his address, the President of the United States established the Agency's mandate: "We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil. To break this addiction ... we must ... move beyond a petroleum-based economy."
The mission of the OEA is to enforce this mandate by bringing to justice those organizations, and principal members of organizations, involved in oil-addiction-fostering extraction, manufacture, or distribution of oil or oil consuming vehicles; and to recommend and support programs aimed at reducing dependence on said oil and other fossil fuels.
Freedom From Oil works to end America’s oil addiction and to stop global climate change by convincing the auto industry to dramatically improve fuel efficiency and to eliminate greenhouse gases from its fleet. We started in 2003 as a join project between Rainforest Action Network, Global Exchange, and The Ruckus Society. Originally called Jumpstart Ford - in 2007 we expanded our campaign to address the entire auto industry.
Report from the Portland Oregon Peak Oil Task Force on a proposed process for oil independence.
In May 2006, Portland Oregon City Council created a Peak Oil Task Force to develop recommendations on appropriate responses to uncertainties in the supply and affordability of oil. Changes in the availability of affordable petroleum products may have significant impacts on transportation, housing, food, and other life-essential products and services. The mission of the Task Force is to identify key short-term and long-term vulnerabilities and develop recommendations for addressing these issues.
A line of stickers and clothing related to living free of oil or gasoline through riding bicycles. Also contains a number of links related to bicycling as an alternative to oil.
