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Originally Posted by onetime2
And, for those who think we can get away from dependence on foreign oil (I know it hasn't been mentioned here yet, but I have faith that someone would/will bring it up), even if we cut our ties to crude, how will we cut all of our trading partners' dependence?
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We can't, not this year or maybe even this decade. But we can start working toward it by encouraging and subsidizing new energy technologies until economies of scale make their manufacture cheaper. And we can share them with our friends, if they aren't already ahead of us on them. (Northern Europeans, for instance, are huge on wind power, much bigger than us.)
I don't think we can get off oil entirely even in the next 20 years in that time while continuing to work towards an oil-free energy system, we and our friends would have more leverage with the oil producers in the meantime.