RSSEnergy I.Q. Test
In response to email messages and comments from visitors, PerotCharts.com has added a new section of charts on oil usage and prices to the website. With the price of oil climbing to record levels over the past year, it is important that Americans become more familiar with the issues surrounding the production and consumption of petroleum products. While developing and discovering alternative forms of energy should be one of our most important near term objectives, we cannot assume that some hoped-for, future breakthrough will provide a revolutionary new source of energy, particularly with respect to transportation. Whether or not we wish to acknowledge it, oil is critically important to our way of life and our economy.
To promote a better understanding of the situation in which the United States finds itself today, PerotCharts.com has developed an Energy I.Q. test to acquaint the public with some basic facts concerning the worlds oil supply and its usage. We believe you will find the quiz to be enlightening. The test consists of 13 multiple choice questions which you can find online at http://perotcharts.com/energy-iq-test/.
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July 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Regarding energy consumption in the USA, a preferred way of presenting it is to present it in terms of energy use / Gross national product.
That equates energy on a unit basis and is more representative than total energy consumption.
All that total energy consumption shows is that we need to produce much more energy domestically and stop exporting American jobs to produce energy!
Why not estimate how many American jobs would be created if we were energy sufficient? That would be an eye opener!
Thanks,
William Sumerford
Amarillo, TX
806-353-1474
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I just discovered This website. Mr. Perot and T. Boone Pickens may be what is needed to make difference in our troubled country. They have the experience and the money to maybe make a difference. I am slightly encouraged.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:55 am
William Sumerford says: “Why not estimate how many American jobs would be created if we were energy sufficient? That would be an eye opener!”
Get this, Samuel Bodman cancelled the $1.8 billion dollar, zero emmission, coal derived, FutureGen project in Mattoon, Illinois this year due to over budget concerns. Then our great thinkers poured $168 billion dollars into the hands of every tax paying American only to find that this money ended up buying $4/gallon gasoline and ultimately resulted as a gift to the crude oil industry. $168 billion would have created 93 FutureGen or similar alternative energy projects and thousands upon thousands of jobs. GO FIGURE.
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
As long as the oil cartels can manipulate the market, they will continue to post record profits while the rest of the economy is rapidly moving in the oposite direction. This naturally allows for greed and corruption to flourish unabstructed. Fact, there is NO shortage of oil as they would like us to think. Why do you think there are tankers anchored in ports abroad unable to dump their oil? Fact, they just cut prodution to jack up the price increasing their record profits as the rest of us play right into their wallets. There is one variable that they seem to taken for granted, they just assume that we’re forced to buy their oil regardless of their price gouging. If we stopped buying gas and oil for one week, it would have a profound affect on the cartels and speculators sending a strong clear message to them as to who really keeps their business afloat. As long as they think they can rape the people, they will continue to do so. Please use as little oil as possible keeping in mind that you have the power to make a difference. Even though the price of crude is falling, we as consumers have to put an end to the corrupt cartels by using as little of their product as possible.