President Obama laid out the goal of energy independence in his State of the Union address. Americans have been saying that we need this since the 1970's.
I believe energy independence is not a realistic goal. Energy diversity is a much more attainable goal and achieves the same results. We don't need to produce all of our energy ourselves. We just need to diversify our energy sources to dilute pricing/political power in any specific energy area such as oil.
For all our fears about importing oil from the Middle East, we only import about 10% of our oil from the Middle East or about 2 million barrels a day out of 20 million barrels of oil a day that the U.S. needs. We're already producing 668,000 barrels a day of ethanol. What if we could get that up to 2 million barrels a day and replace the oil from the Middle East. I don't think we need to replace Middle East oil, just keep pressure on the market with diversity.
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