Oil and gasoline are going to be with us a little bit longer, so here is a bit of visual data on why this country, and the world really, needs more fuel efficient vehicles.

Transportation - mainly cars and trucks - make up the largest part, and growing, of our use of oil.

We are registering more vehicles and using more fuel (the proportion of fuel-to-vehicle is fortunately getting slightly smaller as one person can only drive one vehicle at a time)

We are driving more and more in our vehicles.

After a brief to jump in fuel efficiency and amount driven per car after the last energy crisis, both have stayed constant. It is really quite a shame that and advanced country like ours can not - or shall I say does not - produce more fuel efficient cars then we do. The other average has stayed the same because, see above, we have more cars to drive.

The president mentioned conservation a couple weeks ago as the first point in a strategy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Given the above data, it is obvious where that conservation should start.