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1. Use the Pickens Plan For Energy
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2 . Conserve the Planet 
www.DropOfOil.com Reduce waste saving "One Drop Of Oil" at a time.
www.DropOfOil.com/SaveThe/Planet1.html  Reduce consumption saving "One Drop Of Oil" at a time.
 3 Change our Culture and Patriotism
 www.AmericanPatriotismNeeded.com  Get Americans to be patriotic (This Is going to be hard.)
Dear Survivor,
If we all save just a "Drop of Oil" in everything we do we can save the planet and save our independent freedom.

Everything we buy or use takes oil. Of course cars, trucks, lawnmowers, planes, trains, buses and motorcycles take oil. But everything else we use today also takes oil including water, gifts, air conditioning,  tools, food, entertainment, education, computers, telephones, toys, clothes, equipment, refrigerators and freezers. We are consuming more oil than we can produce. We import 70% of the oil we use. Our source is starting to run dry so the price is increasing due to supply and demand.  Our source can be cut off in a 2 week period.  Because of previous low prices we have allowed consumptivitis to become a part of way of life. It will have to change as we are very close to having a disaster with survival. Conservation and waste reduction need to become a part of patriotism for there to be any reasonable survival of the planet as a desirable place to live.  Please send to Brian@NelsonIdeas.com your ideas that that can added here to also help save a "drop of oil".  Every "drop of oil" ads up and when you get trillions of drops you start getting tankers full of oil saved and hope for planet survival.  Call me with any ideas or questions. Brian Nelson 713-467-3025. Houston, TX. 7am to 9pm M-Sat.
3 Coast to your next stop light.
4 Ride together to work. 100
5 Share a ride to church.  100
6 Put the proper air in your tires. 100
7 Keep your car tuned up.

A car that is tuned up, has clean air and oil filters, and is running right will use less gasoline
8 Remove excess weight from the trunk of your car.

Don't over-load a car. For every extra 100 pounds, you cut your mileage by one mile per gallon

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9 Cut your own weight l lb.
10 Turn the lights off behind you . You can make "Turn It Off" signs for hanging above the light switches to remind yourself.

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11 Turn your stove off a little bit before your food is totally cooked.
12 Turn your air conditioning up one degree.
13 Turn your home heat system down one degee on the thermostat.
14 Use an electric lawnmower.
15 Look behind you in your home and turn off any lights you absolutely do not need at this moment.
16 Reduce travel speed one mile per hour.
17 Organize buying trips to do more than just one thing each time you are out.
18 Put a little less food on your plate.
19 When you get excess napkins and condiments at the fast food stores recycle them at home.
20 Recycle all paper products so they don't go in the landfill

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21 Recycle your cans and bottles.
22 If you don't need something don't buy it.
23 Ask your boss if we really need it as cold at work as is being used.
24 Fix any faucet leak.
25 Be sure the shower does not drip after you are done with it.
26 Cut one minute off your shower time.
27 Accelerate slowly
28 Don't accelerate  when you know you are going to have to brake.
29 Check the miles per gallon when you buy a car.
30 Consider buying a Hybrid or natural gas car.
31 Take the bus to work if  you can.
32  Take the bus to the airport.
33 Donate your excess clothes.
34 Consider whether you really need to buy another pair of  anything.
35 Use old paper for scrap paper.
36 Unplug any appliance not being used.
 
37 Use a fan periodically instead of air conditioning.
38 Wear a sweater in the winter so you don't have to have the thermostat so high.
39 Check for air leaks by windows and doors and use weather stripping .
40 Insulate your attic.
41 Flush your toilet less often.
42 Shut the water off when brushing your teeth.
43 Use towel one day longer than normal.
44 Change sheets one day longer than normal.
45 Take a bike to work.
46 Find a ride share in your neighborhood.
47 See if you could tolerate a 1 degree temperature change.
48  When in a store ask about the wasted energy being used for air or lights.
49  Is your church running the air when no one is there.
50 Decide if your next travel trip is absolutely necessary.
51 Turn your refrigerator down. Refrigerators account for about 20% of Household electricity use. Use a thermometer to set your refrigerator temperature as close to 37 degrees and your freezer as close to 3 degrees as possible. Make sure that its energy saver switch is turned on. Also, check the gaskets around your refrigerator/freezer doors to make sure they are clean and sealed tightly
52  Set your clothes washer to the warm or cold water setting, not hot. Switching from hot to warm for two loads per week can save nearly 500 pounds of CO2 per year if you have an electric water heater, or 150 pounds for a gas heater.
 
53  Make sure your dishwasher is full when you run it and use the energy saving setting, if available, to allow the dishes to air dry. You can also turn off the drying cycle manually. Not using heat in the drying cycle can save 20 percent of your dishwasher's total electricity use.
 
54 Turn down your water heater thermostat. Thermostats are often set to 140 degrees F when 120 is usually fine. Each 10 degree reduction saves 600 pounds of CO2 per year for an electric water heater, or 440 pounds for a gas heater. If every household turned its water heater thermostat down 20 degrees, we could prevent more than 45 million tons of annual CO2 emissions - the same amount emitted by the entire nations of Kuwait or Libya.
 
55 Select the most energy-efficient models when you replace your old appliances. Look for the Energy Star Label - your assurance that the product saves energy and prevents pollution. Buy the product that is sized to your typical needs - not the biggest one available. Front loading washing machines will usually cut hot water use by 60 to 70% compared to typical machines. Replacing a typical 1973 refrigerator with a new energy-efficient model, saves 1.4 tons of CO2 per year. Investing in a solar water heater can save 4.9 tons of CO2 annually.
56 Be careful not to overheat or overcool rooms. In the winter, set your thermostat at 68 degrees in daytime, and 55 degrees at night. In the summer, keep it at 78. Lowering your thermostat just two degrees during winter saves 6 percent of heating-related CO2 emissions. That's a reduction of 420 pounds of CO2 per year for a typical home.
 
57 Clean or replace air filters as recommended. Energy is lost when air conditioners and hot-air furnaces have to work harder to draw air through dirty filters. Cleaning a dirty air conditioner filter can save 5 percent of the energy used. That could save 175 pounds of CO2 per year.
58  Buy energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs for your most-used lights. Although they cost more initially, they save money in the long run by using only 1/4 the energy of an ordinary incandescent bulb and lasting 8-12 times longer. They provide an equivalent amount of bright, attractive light. Only 10% of the energy consumed by a normal light bulb generates light. The rest just makes the bulb hot. If every American household replaced one of its standard light bulbs with an energy efficient compact fluorescent bulb, we would save the same amount of energy as a large nuclear power plant produces in one year. In a typical home, one compact fluorescent bulb can save 260 pounds of CO2 per year.
59 Wrap your water heater in an insulating jacket, which costs just $10 to $20. It can save 1100 lbs. of CO2 per year for an electric water heater, or 220 pounds for a gas heater.
60 Use less hot water by installing low-flow shower heads. They cost just $10 to $20 each, deliver an invigorating shower, and save 300 pounds of CO2 per year for electrically heated water, or 80 pounds for gas-heated water.
61 Weatherize your home or apartment, using caulk and weather stripping to plug air leaks around doors and windows. Caulking costs less than $1 per window, and weather stripping is under $10 per door. These steps can save up to 1100 pounds of CO2 per year for a typical home. Ask your utility company for a home energy audit to find out where your home is poorly insulated or energy inefficient. This service may be provided free or at low cost. Make sure it includes a check of your furnace and air conditioning.
62 Whenever possible, walk, bike, car pool, or use mass transit. Every gallon of gasoline you save avoids 22 pounds of CO2 emissions. If your car gets 25 miles per gallon, for example, and you reduce your annual driving from 12,000 to 10,000 miles, you'll save 1800 pounds of CO2.
63 When you next buy a car, choose one that gets good mileage. If your new car gets 40 miles per gallon instead of 25, and you drive 10,000 miles per year, you'll reduce your annual CO2 emissions by 3,300 pounds.
64 Reduce the amount of waste you produce by buying minimally packaged goods, choosing reusable products over disposable ones, and recycling. For every pound of waste you eliminate or recycle, you save energy and reduce emissions of CO2 by at least 1 pound. Cutting down your garbage by half of one large trash bag per week saves at least 1100 pounds of CO2 per year. Making products with recycled materials, instead of from scratch with raw materials, uses 30 to 55% less for paper products, 33% less for glass, and a whopping 90% less for aluminum.
65 If your car has an air conditioner, make sure its coolant is recovered and recycled whenever you have it serviced. In the United States, leakage from auto air conditioners is the largest single source of emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which damage the ozone layer as well as add to global warming. The CFCs from one auto air conditioner can add the equivalent of 4800 pounds of CO2 emissions per year.
66When you plan major home improvements, consider some of these energy saving investments. They save money in the long run, and their CO2 savings can often be measured in tons per year.

Insulate your walls and ceilings. This can save 20 to 30 percent of home heating bills and reduce CO2 emissions by 140 to 2100 pounds per year. If you live in a colder climate, consider superinsulating. That can save 5.5 tons of CO2 per year for gas-heated homes, 8.8 tons per year for oil heat, or 23 tons per year for electric heat. (If you have electric heat, you might also consider switching to more efficient gas or oil.)
67 Modernize your windows. Replacing all your ordinary windows with argon filled, double-glazed windows saves 2.4 tons of CO2 per year for homes with gas heat, 3.9 tons of oil heat, and 9.8 tons for electric heat.
68 Plant shade trees and paint your house a light color if you live in a warm climate, or a dark color if you live in a cold climate. Reductions in energy use resulting from shade trees and appropriate painting can save up to 2.4 tons of CO2 emissions per year. (Each tree also directly absorbs about 25 pounds of CO2 from the air annually.)
69 Work with your employer to implement these and other energy-efficiency and waste-reduction measures in your office or workplace. Form or join local citizens' groups and work with local government officials to see that these measures are taken in schools and public buildings.
70 Keep track of the environmental voting records of candidates for office. Stay abreast of environmental issues on both local and national levels, and write or call your elected officials to express your concerns about energy efficiency and global warming.
71 Take a bus to work.
72 Walking, of course, is even better than taking the bus.  
73Recycle your recyclables.  
74 But reducing how much you bring into your home is even better.  
75 Stop the influx of junk mail.  
76  Switch your standard light bulbs to CFLs.  
77 Don’t buy industrial new for the holidays. Instead, you can buy vintage items. Or even handmade.  
78 Eat local organic foods in season.  
79 Dry your laundry on a line, on a rack, over the shower rod or other creative places instead of in a clothes dryer that requires electricity or gas.  
80 Mend your worn clothing instead of tossing them out and buying something new.  
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picture of recyclin center. Some of the energy we can use is called renewable energy. These include solar, wind, geothermal and hydro. These types of energy are constantly being renewed or restored.

But many of the other forms of energy we use in our homes and cars are not being replenished. Fossil fuels took millions of years to create. They cannot be made over night.

And there are finite or limited amounts of these non-renewable energy sources. That means they cannot be renewed or replenished. Once they are gone they cannot be used again. So, we must all do our part in saving as much energy as we can
82 In your home, you can save energy by turning off appliances, TVs and radios that are not being used, watched or listened to.  
83 You can turn off lights when no one is in the room.  
84By putting insulation in walls and attics, we can reduce the amount of energy it takes to heat or cool our homes.  
85 Insulating a home is like putting on a sweater or jacket when we're cold...instead of turning up the heat.  
86To make all of our newspapers, aluminum cans, plastic bottles and other goods takes lots of energy Recycling these items -- grinding them up and reusing the material again -- uses less energy than it takes to make them from brand new, raw material.  
87 Read your favorite newspapers or magazines online instead of contributing to wasted paper.  
88 Stop polluting our waters and give up your chemical laden shampoos and conditioners by going No ‘Poo.  
89 Give up chemically treated paper and plastic disposable diapers in favor of cloth diapers. Better yet, give up diapers altogether and go Diaper Free.  
90 Compost your kitchen scraps.  
91 Don’t switch to infant formula–most of which is genetically modified–so easily and breastfeed your children.  
92 Use your slowcooker more often and your range less. Slowcookers require less energy to cook the same food.  
93 Live small and aspire to live smaller.  
94 Buy food in bulk–less packaging makes less waste.  
95 Skip the chemicals, and make your own nontoxic cleaners.  
96 Join swaps (like Paperbackswap online or swaps local to your town) to reduce the new items you bring into your home.  
97 Freecycle unwanted items and look to freecycle for your needs.  
98 Find a CSA and volunteer your time at a local farm.  
99 Unplug your appliances and phantom energy suckers like cell phone chargers.  
100 Vow never to take another plastic bag again. If you’re handy with a knitting needles, you can take your old bags and make a new reusable one.  
101 Insulate your windows during the winter. If plastic insulation doesn’t cut it for you, quilt batting might just do the trick.  
102 Take up gardening during the summertime. Even if you live in an apartment. Preserve your harvest and so you can eat local all year.  
103 When your old appliances have finally had it, recycle them.Then buy energy star rated alternatives. Or you can even buy off-the-grid alternatives.  
104 Save on cooking energy and max your enzyme intake by eating more raw foods.  
105 Save nonpotable water from bathing to water your plants.  
106 Put on a sweater and fuzzy slippers to stay warm while you lower your thermostat.  
107 Don’t purchase clothes that require dry cleaning–something that is chock full of toxic chemicals.  
108  Learn to refashion your clothing for better designs.  
109 When it’s time to get a new computer, recycle your desktop and purchase a laptop which requires less energy.  
110 Get rid of your paper towels and exchange them for cloth hand towels.  
111 Stop using disposable pads and tampons, exchanging them for reusable options like mama cloth.  
112 Stop buying bottled water. Instead, use a reusable bottle and fill it with water from the tap. If you’re concerned about tap water quality, filter it.  
113 Save on styrofoam, paper and plastic by not ordering takeout.  
114 Switch to cloth handkerchiefs (instead of kleenex.  
115  Get to know your neighbors. Share. Borrow.  
116  Catch your rainwater, set-up a greywater system.  
117 Don’t impulse buy. Wait awhile, see if you really need it. And don’t buy on credit.  
1   18  If you have the money install solar panels  
1   19 Install a water heater blanket on your water heater  
120  Storm windows and doors help keep the heat in and cold out  
121 Open windows and use fans instead of AC  
122 Plant more trees outside and keep lots of house plants.  
123 Hand pull your weeds instead of using chemicals  

 

 

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