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Article: End This Addiction Immediately; Record gasoline prices are affecting every aspect of the U.S. economy, and the nation's burgeoning energy problems have become a frontline issue in the presidential election. Can the United States achieve energy independence? Is it a realistic goal, and would it even be a desirable national policy?
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- July 21, 2008
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Byline: Joseph Romm
PRO: America must become energy independent in the next four decades. And with the right political leadership, we will.
Americans will spend more on oil this year than on the Pentagon, homeland security, and Iraq, sending more than half a trillion dollars abroad, much of it to undemocratic countries. This figure could rise 50 percent if, as CBIC World Markets predicts, gas prices climb to nearly $7 a gallon by 2010.
This dependence is economically unsustainable and ruinous for our children. Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide have us on track to raise global temperatures 10 degrees above preindustrial levels by ...