A tip for the president from Jennifer Grayson, the green columnist at Huffington Post, writing at her own place (my emphasis):
President Obama, you’ve spearheaded a number of meaningful environmental reforms since taking office (raising fuel efficiency standards for cars, an $80 billion investment in clean energy technology, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program) — and it seems like you genuinely want to move this country toward a clean energy future, especially in the wake of the BP oil disaster — so would it be too much to ask you to stop being a shill for the bottled water industry? . . .Seems like a reasonable request for all of us. May as well start with what's in our hand; it's at least something we can control.
It may seem like a minor detail, but those little plastic bottles are having a big impact on our nation’s oil footprint, once you factor in the crude used to make the plastic, the energy needed to process the water, the fuel used to transport the bottles, the electricity to refrigerate them… The grand total? Fifty million barrels of the sticky stuff a year. . . .
Now imagine the example you’d set for all of us if you were photographed sporting a reusable Nalgene or Klean Kanteen[.]
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