I’ve been educating people lately who claim to be “green” because they are using alternate fuel sources. It’s important to realize how much we are truly dependent on carbon. Think of every piece of plastic, rubber, or synthetic fabric that enters our daily life. The keyboard, computer, and monitor I am using right now are replete with it. All of these products begin their lives as polymers which start from molecules of carbon that can only be found in oil. A very large part of the worlds daily consumption of oil is for producing these very items. It’s good that someone else is getting the word out there that we need to start breaking the cycle of dependence on carbon and look for alternate ways everywhere, not just in our consumption of fuel. Oh, by the way, the production of those polymers is probably one of the most polluting processes that occurs daily, yet another reason to reduce dependency.