Green Witch wrote:kickycan wrote:Didn't 7-11 already cut it's ties with Citgo? Good for them!
This is not a new idea for 7-11, they have been planning to market their own brand for the last couple of years (according to their stock reports). The reality is we need to get off the oil tit and stop funding fanatics around the world with our fossil fuel addiction.
We need to do several things.
One is aggressively go after every source of oil available to us domestically including Alaska and offshore of Flori-duh and California.
Another is building more refining capacity. In particular, liberals and envirowhacks have prevented most oil exploration and any/all refining contruction in America for the last 30 years. That has to stop.
Another is eliminate all unnecessary commuting. The typical resident of metro areas in the US probably does not need to be at any one work site more than one day a week and while it's likely true that most people are not organized enough to work at home, they could damned well be working from neighborhood work sites. The biggest part of the solution is to use electrons instead of oil and rubber wherever possible.
Another part of the puzzle is electric and new tech cars including mass use of carbonfibre instead of steel and new engines like the MYT engine:
http://www.angellabsllc.com/
The typical car if made of carbonfibre instead of steel would weight 1200 - 1500 lbs. The amount of fuel that would save is collosal.
Basically, the United States should be exporting oil and not importing it.
