Solving America’s oil vulnerability
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Senator Merkely
The Hill
June 22, 2010
In order to start making real progress, we need an oil independence roadmap that sets aggressive, but realistic, targets for oil reduction and accompanies those targets with a comprehensive plan for meeting them.
Politicians have been deploring our dependence on foreign oil for decades. Every one of us can probably recite the key statistic: Every single day we send $1 billion out of our economy to import oil from overseas.

