Think about this for a moment

Recently I have been reading around on the inter-tron about what started as fuel efficient cars, this lead to hybrid cars, then to plug in hybrids, full electrics, low mass vehicles, and up to hybrid bicycles. The final destination of my searching was what one bike can do. If every adult in the world rode a stationary bike for eight hours a day to generate electricity, they would crank out 80 gigawatts, the equivalence of 11 nuclear reactors, which is about enough to power roughly over a quarter of france, but still only half of 1 percent of our energy needs. However there is this new term which is called "negawatts", the effects of not using energy in the traditional form that we are used to, i.e. oil, and petroleum products. If each american driver cycled to work just one day a week, the US would cut there persian gulf oil imports in half! Now I'm not too sure on the exact numbers but most everyone knows how to ride a bike, and a majority of that own a working bike. Just looking at these numbers if two days cycled persian oil is cut out completely, three days canadian tar sands cut by a third. For five days, a standard monday to friday job, the US is no longer dependent on foreign oil. Now I think it is going to be pretty close to impossible to get every working person in america to do that. However just thinking about what is possible is amazing, and all it takes is a bike.