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The movie that will change your attitude about fuel forever.
PUMP features experts like John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil Co.; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, Inc.; Peter Goldmark, former president of the Rockefeller Foundation; and other noteworthy figures who share their passionate views
and knowledge.
and knowledge.
Alcohol fuels can be made from a variety of “feedstocks,” including corn, sugar beets, the Opuntia cactus, yard waste and garbage.
In 2013, 1.15 million gallons of crude oil spilled from tanker cars on U.S. railroads. That’s 350,000 more barrels than spilled in accidents in the previous 38 years.
The United States produces about 11 million barrels of oil and oil products a day. But it consumes about 19 million barrels a day.
Since World War II, 10 of the 11 official U.S. recessions were preceded by a spike in the price of oil. The exception was 1960. – See more at: https://www.pumpthemovie.com/?photosandvideos#sthash.MHzBViSI.dpuf
About half of air pollution in the U.S. is attributed to transportation, worsening health problems like asthma, heart disease and cancer.
There are about 253 million cars and trucks on the road in the U.S. By comparison, about 170,000 plug-in electric vehicles have been sold domestically, .07 percent of the total.
During the 1970s oil shortage, triggered by an OPEC embargo, drivers were forced to wait hours in line at stations. The price of gas went from 38.5 cents a gallon in May 1973 to 55.1 cents in June 1974.
The U.S. military spends between $86 billion and $104 billion each year protecting oil supply from the Persian Gulf. That’s one-seventh of the Pentagon’s annual budget.
On July 11, 2008, the price of crude hit $147 a barrel, the highest price in world history. Two months later, the Dow fell 777 points in a day.
In the 1930s and ’40s, networks of electric streetcars and trains were dismantled all over the country and replaced with fuel-guzzling city buses. Many trolley cars were discarded or publicly set ablaze, like this one. Eventually, it came to light that several companies, including Standard Oil of California, Firestone and GM, colluded to buy up and destroy the lines to promote auto travel.
Now we need to expand the best feedstocks in the most carbon free environments.. Energy Beets throughout the whole western states. Using BLM unused graze lands
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