Discuss two specific oil-use strategies that could be employed to move toward a more sustainable lifestyle

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

First, to reduce one's individual use of oil, one could focus on utilizing public transportation, walking, bicycling, and driving more fuel-efficient vehicles. Putting a greater emphasis on any of these approaches would lessen the amount of oil needed to be refined for transportation purposes. Second, subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies could be eliminated, with the external costs of producing oil instead included in the cost of gasoline at the pump. The consumer cost of gasoline would then be much higher and would encourage consumers to drive less and use more public transportation.