Oil!!

Today, I watched a video on Ted.com- The Political Chemistry of Oil, which did give me some insight into the gas/oil industires and their impact on our life.
Apparently, our everyday life is closely linked to not just gasoline but those petrol byproducts. They help to facilitate our life, yet the convenience comes at a cost to the consumers. With the effect of global warming being more pronounced, we definitely need to take measures to cut back further on the use of oil so that less CO2 will be released to the atmosphere. However, what can we do? I wholeheartedly agree that we are more reactive than proactive. The Gulf oil spill got us thinking about its consequence and what to do in the future- that is, we began to respond to it only when it wreaked havoc on our environment.
We worry about oil price hike, oil spill that caused damage to sea life, and etc. However, we never get around to address the root cause of the problem. Maybe the problem is too intertwinely complicated, but we should at least try harder. We should have our voice heard, and together, we can make a change.
Our governments did little for and talke a lot about creating a greener environment. They are talkers, not doers. As said in the video, governments provide susidies to oil companies, which already made great profits. They should have been spent in other fields, say, alternative energy research.