Reasons why we are not in an energy crisis:

• During the Christmas season Americans decorate their homes with lights. These lights burn from as little as one hour to 24 hours each day.
• 254.4 million registered passenger vehicles are added to the US roadway each year. There are 7 gallons of oil in every one of those tires.
• Plastic becomes the standard material in almost all industries.
• Green/alternative energy continues to be our last resort.
• Road infrastructures, consisting primarily of asphalt, aka. Oil, continue to be expanded and built even in the midst of a huge economic recession.
• It takes 30 years to change an infrastructure given we know what to change it to and we have the capital to do so, yet we haven’t began to change our failing one.

Reasons why we are in an energy crisis:

• 60 % of oil can be found in the Middle East and US imports 70 % of their oil from them.
• Oil peaked in the 1960s (we all refuse to admit this).
• Humans consume on average 10 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every calorie of food consumed in the industrialized world, before cooking.
• People continue to be afraid of the dark.
• Denial is our biggest problem.
• Power continues to be concentrated in the hands of the wealthy.
• The US constitutes 5 percent of the world population and uses 25 % of the world energy.
• The 1st law of thermodynamics: Nothing can be created or destroyed. All that’s here is here. Or in the words of Porky the Pig: “that’s all folks”.