Doing so wouldn't just benefit urban dwellers; it would lower our deficit by substantially increasing productivity, decrease our dependence on fossil fuel and enhance social mobility.
If we would simply be willing to drive more fuel-efficient cars, we could drive down gas prices, decrease our dependence on foreign oil and help ensure a cleaner environment for our children, all at the same time.
"Apple is making the phone do all things a computer does," I wrote that day, adding, "While I am not suggesting that this replaces our notebooks or desktops for crucial productivity tasks, the iPhone (if it lives up to its hype) is at least going to decrease our dependence on [them]." That, at least, turned out to be right.
"America is rich in energy resources, both traditional and renewable, and those resources should all be utilized so we can decrease our dependence on foreign energy sources and help generate greater job growth, which our nation desperately needs".
In recent years, biodiesel, as a renewable and environment-friendly fuel has emerged as one of the most investigated bio-fuel with a goal to decrease our dependence on petroleum fuels and reduce environmental pollution.
Jon Blickwede, a senior geologist for Statoil, the Norwegian oil company active in the Gulf of Mexico, said he was optimistic that exploring the eastern gulf area "has the kind of potential to decrease our dependence on foreign imported crude oil and natural gas as well".
Unrewarding measures can be scrapped or tweaked, but a broad experimental approach has an excellent chance of improving our quality of life while decreasing our dependence on imported oil.
Decreasing our dependence on foreign oil through the creation of sustainable, economically fair alternative energy plans would not only stabilize our economy and create jobs, but would also prove to the rest of the world that we truly believe in the ideas of equality and democracy for all.
A higher percentage than the general economy, about 9percentt of this expanding solar energy workforce is made up of veterans, who are continuing to serve our country by decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels and making our power grid more secure.
While researchers have speculated for years that hydrogen fuel cells could power clean, electric vehicles, cutting emissions and decreasing our dependence on oil, manufacturing fuel cells big enough to power a car is prohibitively expensive – one of the main reasons they are not yet in widespread use.
