Hot, Flat, Crowded - you betcha!

Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times columnist, has published the next steps after his acclaimed best=seller, The World is Flat. It's Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.

HOT=global climate change
FLAT=global middle class growth
CROWDED=global population growth (1Billion more born in next 12 years)

Forget the warm and fuzzy term "global warming", we're experiencing "Global Wierding". Weather is getting wierder: hotter hots, longer droughts, heavier rains and snows, bigger and more destructive storms.

And, the next Chapter of Hot, Flat and Crowded will be written by us. Mr. Friedman's self-proclaimed Version 2.0 will include ideas and proposals sent in from readers: ideas about clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation; about politics and nation-building.

Have an idea? Post them on his website.

In the words of Sheikh Yamani, former OPEC oil minister, "The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones." It ended because we found something better.

Scary Oil Facts

Per DAY, the U.S. imports oil from the following countries:

Canada=1.864 Million

Saudi Arabia=1.453 Million

Mexico=1.410 Million

Venezuela=1.150 Million

Nigeria=1.082 Million

Angola=.496 Million

Iraq=.485 Million

Algeria=.443 Million

Ecuador=.198 Million

Kuwait=.176 Million
That's over 10.5 millions of barrels per DAY in 2007 numbers.

(Source: U.S. Dept of Energy)

China is the second-biggest fuel consumer after the U.S. In June, they ended gas subsidies, increasing fuel prices by approximately 18% (Source: China's National Development and Reform Commission).

Chinese consumption is expected to rise to an average 8.02 million barrels a day this year. (Source: U.S. Dept of Energy)

Despite rising fuel prices world-wide, energy consumption continues to climb according to the recent Short-Term Energy Outlook from the Energy Information Administration. Here's the full report.

Where will this all lead us, nationally and internationally?

Can We Stop Our Addiction to Foreign Oil?

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