How One Can Reduce American “Oil Addiction”?

Several decades have passed since the Western countries experienced one of the most serious economic crisis- oil crises of the 70s. Undoubtedly some technological innovations have been introduced and economies of most of Western countries are much less oil dependant than in the middle of the seventies, nevertheless the economies of major developed nations are still energy and oil dependant. Apart from that few people would argue that due to the development of today’s world economy, the demand on the oil or energy resources can be saturated to the full extent in the nearest future. With rapid economic growth of China and spectacular growth evident in India, there are more than enough reasonable grounds to presume that the demand on oil will be increasing in the next several years or even decades to come.

The largest economy of the world- American economy depends on oil and many energy resources as well. Despite the fact that the USA is one of the largest producers of oil in the world it still has to  import large amount of oil and other energy resources,  from various nations of the globe. Current  situation in the Middle Eastern region, where large deposits of oil are concentrated is quite volatile and even despite the fact that Saudi Arabia is widely regarded by many professionals as one of the steadfast allies of the Western countries, there are few reasons to believe that situation will remain the same for a long period of time as dissatisfaction with  the policy of the USA in the Middle East is growing and few Arab governments (even if the systems of the governments are not democratic one ) can ignore and disparage public opinions in their nations. Insurgents and other terrorist groups try, not unsuccessfully to damage oil refinery facilities in Iraq in order to hamper the activities of American and Iraq governments to rebuild and strengthen democracy in this country; on the other hand instability in Iraq does not allow optimists to predict that the prices on oil will decrease in nearest future. 

That is why so many specialists applauded recent state of the union address of the president of USA, in which he stated that the USA should decrease its consumption of oil and become less oil dependant. So how this problem can be resolved? What lessons were learned from the previous oil crisis? With such incredible advance in technology and mass communication would it not be possible to devise some plan to reduce the dependency of the USA on oil? Undoubtedly the USA has sufficient financial resources and enough technological capacities to resolve this problem; however it looks like the will to resolve it is lacking. Recently even much poor countries such as Brazil have implemented energy saving technologies (for instance it tries to substitute ethanol for oil), many states have also made some notable progress in the development of solar energy technologies which allow them to reduce their consumptions of traditional  energy sources such as oil and  energy. Nevertheless not so many nations have aggressively tried to implement new energy technologies with the result that on the whole American is still oil and energy dependant. Like contend of every web site depends on the professionalism of advertising website copywriter and online copywriting http://www.adage.com/ads/interstitial_2.html facilities of the company, so the future of our economy depends of efficient measures that should be taken to tackle looming crisis. President has recently proposed increasing of the financing of research projects which might lessen the impact of the looming crisis that the country could face in the coming decades; yet one could argue that these research programs will not produce substantial results in the nearest future. So the only solution might be effective introduction of existing energy saving technologies that are already available in the USA and around the globe.