"We will prove once and for all that we can clean up pollution, make our power systems more efficient and more reliable and move away from dependence on others -- all with no new taxes, no new bureaucracies and no onerous regulations, " Gore said.

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One is a dependence on membranes bought from others.

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Under this President, we have put in place historic fuel-efficiency standards that will do more to reduce our consumption of oil and, therefore, our dependence on foreign oil than a whole host of proposals that others have put out there, which they pretend will somehow lower the price at the pump next week.

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At this point and for the foreseeable future, Avalon, (AVL) Molycorp (MCP), Rare Element Resources (REE) and others are proceeding to develop production facilities in the United States to reduce dependence on the unpredictable Chinese.

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"On a lot of substantive issues like health insurance, he was the first one out of the box with a very ambitious universal plan, and I think he forced the others to become bolder in a lot of their policy prescriptions, energy dependence and so on, " Klein said.

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Others, such as some of the telecoms investments, are paying the price for their dependence on Indonesia's domestic economy.

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