Kicking America's Oil Addiction

Source Lahontan Valley News

America imports more than 13 million barrels of oil per day, at the current price of $125 per barrel. That's money flowing out of the country, building skyscrapers in Dubai and bombs in Baghdad. And the price keeps going up. That's money that would boost our economy like a Saturn V rocket. Americans would find themselves with lots of extra dollars to spend on new houses, cars, food, etc.

And since we would no longer depend on Middle East oil, we wouldn't have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars protecting those supplies, not to mention saving the lives of American soldiers.

Reducing oil consumption would have a big impact on the environment as well. It would cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars, as well as the pollution from oil refineries.

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