A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.
Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.
We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.
Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
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