Why not target the oil companies?
Oil companies won’t stop drilling as long as we keep consuming oil. After years of efforts to cancel environmentally and socially destructive petroleum projects, environmental and human rights advocates have strikingly little to show for our efforts. When we persuade an oil company to abandon a project, another company fills in the gap. One petroleum development shutting down is a drop in the bucket to the global oil industry. The bottom line is that we must curb the demand for petroleum that fuels the quest for oil. Forty-percent of our oil consumption goes into gas guzzling cars, trucks, and SUVs; the single largest reason for our demand for oil is the vehicles we drive. The biggest step that we can take to break our addiction to oil is to get the US automakers to build petroleum-free, pollution-free vehicles.
