Both of these would-be presidents and leaders of their respective parties understand a central reality: It is not just a sensible policy approach to begin making our automotive fleet independent from gasoline.

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Campaigners are calling for ambitious reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy, which governs the fishing activities of the EU fleet, to ensure fisheries are more sustainably managed to prevent overfishing.

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According to Earth-Policy.org, if the United States replaced its entire fleet of passenger cars with "super-efficient" hybrids such as these over the next 10 years, gasoline use would be slashed in half.

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The Center for Security Policy is unaware of any strategic developments in the intervening period that would justify having a smaller fleet of C-17s - and many that argue for a larger one.

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