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Aug 25, 2005
How to Escape the Oil Trap - Newsweek
Fareed Zakaria wisely suggests that our frightening dependence on oil is the greatest problem facing U.S. foreign policy. This is a point that can hardly be argued. Think puppet regimes. Think unilateral decisions. Think armed intervention. Think pre-emptive warfare. Think American hegemony. Think oil.
Now think alternative fuels. Think increased fuel efficiency standards. Think renewable resources. Now try to imagine us supporting feudal theocracies like Saudi Arabia with these technologies rapidily lowering our daily oil consumption.
Admittedly, complete dependence from oil may be many years away but as Zakaria states ...We don't need a Manhattan Project to find our way out of our current energy trap. The technologies already exist. But what we're searching for is perhaps even harder—political leadership and vision.It would be easy to single out the Bush administration as being singularly incapable of embracing any vision that leads us from the oil trough, but they are not the first to help their cronies in the international oil industry exploit our greed for oil. Nor, I regret, will they be the last.
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