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Description:

Fossil fuels are great... until, you know, they all go away and the world has no more ozone... but until then, they're great!

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Transcript

00:13

If you want to convince your representatives in government to tackle

00:16

the big issues of fossil fuel conservation one way to do it is to pitch [man holding a sign protesting for people to stand up to big oil]

00:20

a tent on their front yard and refuse to leave that's also a quick way

00:24

to get arrested so you might be better off just writing them a letter however [policeman arresting a man for pitching a tent on someone's front lawn]

00:28

you'll need to include some important stuff in your letter and no we don't

00:32

mean glitter you're going to need facts about fossil fuel use one of the most

00:36

important facts is that fossil fuels aren't renewable so once they're gone

00:40

they're gone plus if we keep consuming fossil fuels at the current rate we [barrels of oil and natural gas picked up by hands]

00:45

might run out of them completely within the next hundred or two hundred years

00:49

and since they're not renewable there's not much will be able to do about it [Gas station light flickering]

00:52

well maybe except cry in our cars which you know won't be running another important

00:57

fact is how fossil fuels are used if you want to use them you'll have to burn [a match used to burn the fossil fuels]

01:01

them and burning fossil fuels causes pollution so no matter how good we get

01:06

at conserving fossil fuels if we continue to burn them for a long time

01:09

that'll mean more and more pollution and that's not great unless you're a really [pollution billowing out from an industrial factory]

01:13

big fan of environmental deterioration and bad health effects in which case

01:18

we're not sure we want to be friends with you last but not least there are

01:21

all sorts of facts that touch on how much fossil fuel is needed to make and [fossil fuels on the opposite side of a scale as an iphone]

01:25

power the stuff in our day-to-day lives and generally it's a lot more than you

01:30

might expect for example if you want to power a single light bulb all day and [a light bulb switched on for a lamp]

01:34

all night for an entire year it takes almost 800 pounds of coal we kind of get

01:40

why environmentally conscious folks are so big on switching off light also how [lamp lightbulb switched off]

01:44

much raw crude oil would you figure it takes to make a gallon of gasoline two

01:49

gallon three gallons it's actually closer to 26 tons of crude oil we bet [a huge barrel of 26 tons of crude oil on stage with smaller barrels of oil]

01:55

you never thought you need a swimming pool full of crude oil just to mow the

01:58

lawn but that's just one more reason it's important to know the facts behind

02:01

fossil fuel use and as a side note it's probably a good idea to not fill your [man swimming in his pool full of crude oil]

02:06

swimming pool with crude oil unless you want the worst pool party in history

02:11

then knock yourself out

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