In this 50 minute video series Thomas L. Friedman reports about the current state of our addiction to oil. The first part deals with cars and gasoline, what we are to expect in the coming decade.

Our consumption of gasoline is warming the planet.

We are funding both sides of the war on terrorism.

It's quite interesting to see how GM defended their production of the Hummer in this video and how they are now in the year 2008 in very big economic trouble and want to sell the Hummer and SUV divisions. It seems there is no longer any customer demand. It's just tragic.