How addicted are we to petroleum in the United States?  Addicted enough to pay up to 10,000 times the price of municipal water for water packed in a petroleum based bottle.  We are so addicted to petroleum products that we consume more crude oil than Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America combined!  We produce 3% of the worlds petroleum, but consume about 25% of the worlds supplies.  We needlessly add to this addiction an extra 1.5 million barrels of crude oil a year for the plastic to make water bottles.  If all of America’s bottled water drinkers stopped buying bottled water and bought aluminum water bottles from New Wave Enviro, we could power an extra 100,000 cars a year.

So, as Americans in a financial crisis, why do we still waste our money on useless plastic water bottles?  We need to quit our addiction to using petroleum products buy purchasing at home water filters and reusable water bottles.  By changing something as fundamental as the way we consume water, this will lead to changes in the other ways that we consume petroleum products.

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