Today’s SR is devoted exclusively to petroleum, our dependence on it, and the failure of our cowardly Congress, as well as our President or Vice President, both of whom are beholden to the petro industries, to make any serious attempt to rectify this situation. I have chosen three aspects that are not well-known, to demonstrate that there are going to be many consequences to our addiction that have received very little consideration. We have the money, or credit, to spend $10 BILLION a month on Iraq, but no money for health care, or doing anything that will free us from the addiction that is warping our lives as individuals, and as a society. Only concerted citizen action over many months is going to change this.