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[Written on the Wind] Energy Independence is where we should put our energies. While we fiddle with things, corporate interests will continue to lead us into pointless, costly and polluting oil wars if we do not get off foreign oil. We can not merely wish ourselves off foreign oil. Too many in the green environmental movements have lulled themselves into an ennui of self righteous complacency. It is not enough to ignorantly propose that windmills and solar cells are sufficient for our current needs when rudimentary math shows by inspection they are not. A case in point is drilling off our coasts. This drilling will go one of two ways, either we get that oil now,use it in the most responsible way it can be used, and reduce our oil and gas prices, or India and China will get that oil via slant drilling from 50 miles off our coast and all bets are off on the environmental consequences of how they will use it. I urge an end to ostrich environmentalism. We need to drill our own oil and we need more nuclear power plants.
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