{"id":6166,"date":"2010-06-24T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:03:55","slug":"americans-and-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/24\/americans-and-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans and oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6167\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/oil-drilling-rigs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"oil drilling rigs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A new <a title=\"poll\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/22\/us\/22poll.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a> reports reports that Americans are &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about energy but &#8220;unwilling to pay higher gasoline prices to help develop new fuel sources.&#8221;\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"Cutler Cleveland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/energy\/people\/faculty\/bio-cleveland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cutler Cleveland<\/a>, director of the <a title=\"Center for Energy and Environmental Studies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Energy and Environmental Studies<\/a>, says this attitude defies our experience since 1970 as we&#8217;ve gone to war over oil, experienced major oil spills, suffered recessions triggered by oil price hikes, and watched the global political landscape be reshaped by energy issues.\u00a0 From his blog, <a title=\"The Energy Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theenergywatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Energy Watch<\/a>, he poses and asks a question &#8212; then offers a conclusion:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHow have American habits changed in light of these events? Here is what has happened from 1970 to 2007 in regards to our most oil-intensive activity:<\/em><em> Percentage of people who commute alone in car, 25% increase; <\/em><em>Number of miles driven per car, 23% increase; <\/em><em>Percentage of households with three or more cars,\u00a065% increase; <\/em><em>Miles driven per household, 50% increase; <\/em><em>Average size of household, 17% decrease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bp.com\">BP <\/a>and government regulators must be held accountable for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.\u00a0 But make no mistake about it: the ultimate driving force behind our predicament is the American appetite for oil and our apparent unwillingness to change our behavior in the face of enormous human and environmental costs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Cutler Cleveland, 617-353-3083, <a href=\"mailto:cutler@bu.edu\">cutler@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll reports reports that Americans are &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; about energy but &#8220;unwilling to pay higher gasoline prices to help develop new fuel sources.&#8221;\u00a0 Professor Cutler Cleveland, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, says this attitude defies our experience since 1970 as we&#8217;ve gone to war over oil, experienced major oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3247,2902,3248,2904,2974,3249,123,397,3237,1167,2927,3171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}