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Environmental Health Tools – Addicted to Oil: U.S. Oil Policy Simulation |
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Environment, Sustainable Development, Ecology
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
A
paper published last
year
by Resources for the Future made the point that our oil vulnerability
has less to do with the amount we import than simply with the
staggering amounts we consume period. In addition, energy independence,
a favorite rallying cry of politicians, is an unachievable myth.
Energy
independence has been a rhetorical and political rallying cry for
nearly 40 years—President Nixon presided over the massive 1974
Project Independence Report—and it is as flaccid a
concept today as it has been over the decades.
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Analysis
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