Just some food for thought...here is a statistic that I stumbled upon today, and I love me some statistics!
According to a New York Times article, making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 cars for a year!
Wow! I know that there is more oil than that in Alaska, but do we really need to threaten environmentally sensitive areas, when it will take awhile to take advantage of them? Hopefully one of my petro-eng. classmates can give me their take on this!
I mean, 100,000 cars just from the AMERICAN usage of water bottles...wow...I will admit to have 3 "drinks" on my table....2 are water bottles that I reused from the fountain and now will recycle--of those 1 was from a team party but one was from the cafe--I also have a mug I've been using for the last 3 weeks for my water....which is probably really gross, and I am now going to take home and WASH but bring back!
Call me a tree hugger if you want, but I feel I am fairly moderate on most issues, but maybe fairly ignorant as well. I need to read up more on this from "less political" perspectives. Do you know of any good sources that estimates the amount we can tap in protected Alaskan reserves?
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