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If you want to convince your representatives in government to tackle

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the big issues of fossil fuel conservation one way to do it is to pitch [man holding a sign protesting for people to stand up to big oil]

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a tent on their front yard and refuse to leave that's also a quick way

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to get arrested so you might be better off just writing them a letter however [policeman arresting a man for pitching a tent on someone's front lawn]

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you'll need to include some important stuff in your letter and no we don't

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mean glitter you're going to need facts about fossil fuel use one of the most

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important facts is that fossil fuels aren't renewable so once they're gone

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they're gone plus if we keep consuming fossil fuels at the current rate we [barrels of oil and natural gas picked up by hands]

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might run out of them completely within the next hundred or two hundred years

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and since they're not renewable there's not much will be able to do about it [Gas station light flickering]

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well maybe except cry in our cars which you know won't be running another important

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fact is how fossil fuels are used if you want to use them you'll have to burn [a match used to burn the fossil fuels]

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them and burning fossil fuels causes pollution so no matter how good we get

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at conserving fossil fuels if we continue to burn them for a long time

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that'll mean more and more pollution and that's not great unless you're a really [pollution billowing out from an industrial factory]

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big fan of environmental deterioration and bad health effects in which case

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we're not sure we want to be friends with you last but not least there are

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all sorts of facts that touch on how much fossil fuel is needed to make and [fossil fuels on the opposite side of a scale as an iphone]

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power the stuff in our day-to-day lives and generally it's a lot more than you

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might expect for example if you want to power a single light bulb all day and [a light bulb switched on for a lamp]

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all night for an entire year it takes almost 800 pounds of coal we kind of get

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why environmentally conscious folks are so big on switching off light also how [lamp lightbulb switched off]

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much raw crude oil would you figure it takes to make a gallon of gasoline two

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gallon three gallons it's actually closer to 26 tons of crude oil we bet [a huge barrel of 26 tons of crude oil on stage with smaller barrels of oil]

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you never thought you need a swimming pool full of crude oil just to mow the

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lawn but that's just one more reason it's important to know the facts behind

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fossil fuel use and as a side note it's probably a good idea to not fill your [man swimming in his pool full of crude oil]

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swimming pool with crude oil unless you want the worst pool party in history

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then knock yourself out

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