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Science 5: What Can I Do To Save Fossil Fuels? 4 Views


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Burning fossil fuels is so 1890... and that joke is so 1990... Maybe by 2090, we'll have converted to renewable energy.

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Every single day an almost unimaginable amount of fossil

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fuel is used in the US alone about 20 million barrels of oil get used every day [map of US showing how many barrels of oil are used]

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that cover a whole lot of trips to the grocery store with numbers that big

00:27

you might wonder if there's anything you can do to save fossil fuels well guess

00:32

what there is something you can do and it's super easy all you need to do is [woman stood at a window wearing a headband and disco lights above]

00:36

become a superhero and chastise wasteful folks then fly away into the sunset and

00:40

if you're like I can't fly then you're not trying very hard are you come on the

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fate of the world depends on you okay fine maybe you can't fly but one [a boy laid on the floor hurt after falling]

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important thing you can do is to be energy conscious one of the main uses of

00:54

fossil fuels is to make electricity and nowadays we definitely use a lot of it

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so how do you use less well you can unplug devices you're not using turn off [a toaster plugged into a socket]

01:03

the light if you're going into another room take a slightly cooler shower and

01:08

turn down the heat seriously buy some blankets they work wonders so sitting in [kid with a guitar playing rockband in front of a TV]

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a room full of plugged in devices with dozens of lights on a shower pumping out

01:17

steam and a thermostat crank to tropical temperatures is your favorite pastime

01:21

you might want to rethink your priorities a bit another way to save

01:25

fossil fuels is by following the 3 R's reduce reuse and recycle the factories [Dino pointing to the three R's on a chalkboard]

01:30

that make commercial products use a lot of fossil fuels so by doing stuff like

01:34

using fewer plastic bags at the grocery store reusing old containers and

01:38

recycling containers that can't be used anymore fewer fossil fuels will be used

01:42

plus if you're really into tossing trash into blue bins you're going to have a [a recycling trash can]

01:45

lot of fun recycling trust us what everyone has a weird hobby last but not

01:50

least we can save fossil fuels by being cautious of how we get around different [fumes coming out of a cars exhaust]

01:54

modes of transportation require way more fossil fuel than others so choose wisely

01:58

if you're going to the park maybe skip the car and use a fossil fuel free

02:02

option instead like walking or riding a bike unless you're a really big fan of [woman riding a bike down a road]

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biking while dragging a burning barrel of oil behind you these options are way

02:10

more environmentally friendly even though buses use some fossil

02:13

fuels they're a good fossil fuel saving option for longer trips and as much as [bus picking people up at a bus stop]

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possible try to avoid riding on plane which can use tens of thousands of

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gallons of fuel for a single trip that said it's okay to make some exceptions

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it'd be pretty tough to bike to France no matter how good you are at cycling [man cycling off a pier into the water]

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