Should we not look past our noses to the larger issues of oil dependence?
"We have to move past our oil dependence but it won't happen overnight, " he said.
The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
The timing and technology finally appear right for car unshackled from oil dependence.
And cutting our oil dependence by a third is part of that plan.
Mr. BECKER: This is a cynical effort by auto companies to evade the law that would reduce our oil dependence and global warming pollution.
Having already eliminated the most obvious inefficiencies that cost the least to change, Europeans will find it harder to reduce oil dependence though curbing consumption.
That is something that we can achieve. (Applause.) We can cut our oil dependence -- we can cut our oil dependence by a third.
If we are going to fight climate change, cut pollution and put the kibosh on our foreign oil dependence, this is just the sort of things we will need to do.
This week it announced plans to put half a million gas-powered vehicles on its roads by 2011, to reduce oil dependence and provide a market for the off-shore gas fields it is developing.
So we have to reduce our oil dependence.
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Mainstream Islamists, such as the economy minister, Abdullah Shamia, speak not of imposing Islamic law but of respecting contracts with foreign oil companies, diversifying the economy away from oil dependence, wooing investment, and regulating the labour market to block a new influx of migrant workers seeking passage to Europe.
Can we responsibly continue for another generation to lock our transportation sector (the principal, and most profligate, consumer of imported oil) into dependence on oil substantially imported from unfriendly places?
We can make choices now that ensure that those industries are domestic, that we dominate those fields of endeavor and we create the jobs associated with those industries here in America -- or we can substitute our dependence on foreign oil for a dependence on imports of clean energy technology.
Could it be that we would simply be trading our dependence on the Middle East for oil for a dependence on sunshine?
Sufficient refinery capacity has as much influence on gasoline prices as fluctuations in the price of oil so if Americans want stable gasoline prices and almost no dependence on oil from outside North America, we need more refineries.
Does the high ranking of oil and auto companies underscore America's dependence on foreign oil or explain why U.S. automakers have struggled in recent years?
It agreed to double oil exports, which will reduce China's dependence on Middle East oil.
But I would make the point that we are pursuing an energy policy that enhances our domestic production of oil but also looks broadly at all sources of energy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and that includes natural gas and nuclear, renewables.
Our security, our prosperity, and our environment all require reducing our dependence on oil.
For the foreseeable future, every flex-fuel car sold will increase America's dependence on oil.
Dependence on oil, a large expatriate workforce, and growing inflation pressures are significant long-term challenges.
Nobody, not even Mr Chavez, disputes that Venezuela's dependence on oil is a worry.
At some point in the future, new energy technologies and conservation will lessen our dependence on oil.
And that means prices will keep going up unless we do something about our own dependence on oil.
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Mr. Bradley has also stated in the past that American dependence on oil imports pose no threat to national security.
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Still, there are few breakthroughs as promising for increasing fuel efficiency and reducing our dependence on oil as electric vehicles.
It will give everyone who believes we can free ourselves of our dependence on oil, real solutions which embody real opportunity.
The more -- the less we rely on foreign oil, the less dependence we have, the more energy security we have.
The government will also have to work on diversifying the economy to include other sectors like agriculture to reduce dependence on oil.
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