Conserving Celebrates Life
There are many ways we can show respect for our land. One way is how we may save a simple thing like our motor oil. Let’s Conserve Our Oil! We in America can better use and conserve our oil. Each year we use 230 billion gallons of the world’s petroleum supplies. We send more than $200,000 every minute overseas in our yearly consumption of over 7 billion barrels of oil products. Since the USA constitutes 5% of the world’s population, 25 % of the world’s oil, and yet it produces 22% of climate-altering CO2, we have a tremendous opportunity to best save our oil. For the past twenty-six years I have tracked do-it-yourself automotive fluids from every possible angle. I help begin this effort in Montgomery County, Maryland and started DC’s used oil recycling efforts. I even helped build a used oil recycling facility and several years ago volunteered a month in southern Africa to promote efforts there. On the front end, there is the one trillion gallons of oilfield waste we inject into deep w