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What began in the late 1800s as a love of oil (and the potential wealth oil brings) has turned to a love-hate relationship with oil. Oil has a wealth of uses, but also a wealth of consequences.
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The United States uses one-quarter of the world's energy.
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The United States is the second-largest producer of oil in the world.
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The United States imports more oil than any other country.
- The United States suffers from a blind and selfish dependency on oil.
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The United States struggles with ending its dependency on oil,
especially when lobbyists fight this.
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The United States argues with itself over off-shore oil drilling. Catastrophes would truly be catastrophic, but the "oil
race" continues.
Explanation:
The government of a consumer state has a vested interest in protecting the government of oil-producing states.
Louisiana - Spanning nearly 1 million acres, south-central Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin is the nation's largest river swamp. A distributary of the Mississippi River, the swamp begins near Simmesport and stretches 140 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico.
The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have been increasing due to the widespread burning of fossil fuels by the growing human populations.
