My Name is Mankind, And I'm Addicted to Oil

The Earth Day Network's 12 steps to oil recovery:

Step 1: Admit you are an addict. Like most addicts, you probably have no idea what harm you are actually causing. Despite the shock of having a spotlight turned on your behavior on national television, Google "climate change" or "oil addiction" and you will see the thousands of articles that have been written about your addiction over the past twenty years. Step 2: Do a searching and fearless inventory of your life. Start by taking a look around. Carry out a personal energy audit of your life. Look for wasteful and/or excessive use of energy including the use of large, gas-hungry vehicles, houses that are 10 times larger than necessary and other evidence of profligate lifestyles. Step 3: Turn Yourself Over to a Higher Power. Ask your main energy provider where your power comes from and if you could switch to "green power." Step 4: Believe that a power greater than you can restore us to sanity. Ask yourself what your national, state, and local government representatives, including your mayor, has been doing to control this addiction. If you do not feel they are doing enough let them know and vote for leaders who have a plan of their own to help you fight this addiction. Check their campaign contributors list for evidence of insincerity. Step 5: Make a decision to turn your will over to the care of someone more powerful (and less addicted). Is this really all your fault? Do you feel you need to lean on a force more powerful than yourself? 2008 is just around the corner. You can make combating oil addiction one of the major topics of debate in the 2008 Presidential elections. Step 6: Make of list of people that we have harmed and be willing to make amends to all of them. Start with the Inuits, the polar bears, the residents of Greenland, Small Island Nations, New Orleans (and possibly Miami). Step 7: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. There is no need to fly to these locations to make a personal apology. Step 8: Realize that nothing but continuous action on the preceding steps can make a difference. Your dependence on oil will not disappear overnight. Start with mandatory caps on your consumption and demand it of all Americans. Step 9: Carry the message forward. The more people fighting the addiction, the more impressive the results will be. Host an Earth Day (April 22nd) Party or attend one of thousands across the United States to let people know how widespread the addiction is and how they too can fight it.