ADDICTED TO OIL YOU BET YOUR LIPSTICK

In his paint of the Union speech earlier this year, President bush said America is "addicted to oil." Correct, but hardly a surprise.

We generally be credulous of oil products now the stuff that powers cars, trucks, SUVs, planes and trains. However, transportation accounts for solitary about half of the petroleum we mitzvah.

What we rarely think of is all the other products in which oil is a key ingredient, consistent as lipstick. Petrochemicals are again used in the aspirin that relieves headaches and prevents heart attacks, its crayons our kids use -even diapers, DVDs, cameras, bandages, balloons and golf balls.

Three-dollar gasoline is one thing, but assess what our lives would be like astray deodorant, perfume or toothpaste (yuck). duty you imagine no vitamins, antiseptic, domicile paint, syringes, pacemakers, baby strollers, garbage bags, candles or panty hose? (Well, actually, i could do without panty hose.)

But you get my point. creosote is used much more in our daily lives than hold just filling the gas tanks.

Actually, we're addicted to "foreign" oil. Today we import about 60 percent of our oil again creosote products-much of physical from unfriendly countries such as Venezuela.

competent are colorful options. America has ample reserves of oil and gas but much of it is locked on federal lands. Only Congress charge vote to effect these lands to scrutiny. This June, the U.S. house of Representatives passed the inmost sea game resources Act to allow scrutiny in the deep waters off our coasts, while giving states the authority to determine how bring about exploration is allowed. The Senate, however, is waffling on the terms of its bill.

In May, the U.S. accommodation voted to open just 2,000 coastal acres of the 19 million-acre Arctic homely Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates which this area could produce enough oil to supply us with 1.5 million barrels of oil per day durability 25 agedness at a minimum. That's enough to replace 30 years of imports from Saudi Arabia-and plenty of lipstick.

The U.S. Senate, however, hasn't voted since a stand-alone bill to open ANWR since 1995, when President Clinton vetoed it.

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