To see a much more convincing and frightening video, head over to Kick the Oil Habit, a new campaign just launched by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. (Robert Redford will announce the campaign tonight on Larry King Live.)

For my part, I think they rely a little to heavily on gas-price hysteria on the problem page and ethanol on the alternatives page, but then, I don’t have millions of dollars to research and craft these things, so I should probably defer to their judgment.

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Let’s hope it goes somewhere.

(Maybe Ana can drop by later and share more details about how the campaign was conceived and what its goals are.)

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