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A Challenge To Become Oil Free In 10 Years

Published 07/18/08 Jeff Bennett - Print Article
E-mail - editor@economyincisis.org

Former Vice President Al Gore challenged America to rely on renewable energy sources in the future. This goal can be achieved in 10 years if the citizens are willing to change while encouraging the new president to fulfill this objective.

Gore pointed out our reliance on foreign fuels must end. The U.S. continues to borrow money from China – $405.5 billion in 2007 – to finance our oil consumption from the OPEC nations. Americans are making the Middle Eastern countries rich enough to purchase stocks, bonds and realty. This practice endangers America’s future as a sovereign nation.


Source International Herald Tribune:

Gore said that producing all electricity in the United States from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources" within 10 years was not a farfetched vision, although he acknowledged it would require fundamental changes in political thinking and personal expectations.

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The former vice president also said that he could not recall a worse confluence of problems facing the United States: high gasoline prices; outsourcing of jobs; turmoil in the home mortgage industry.

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"We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet," Gore said. "Every bit of that's got to change."

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