According to the Guardian newspaper, a Swedish minister said oil dependency could be broken by 2020.
In drafting the 2013 budget for the next two years, oil dependency is dropping, not going up.
Given the public's mood to reduce foreign oil dependency as well as greenhouse gases, Detroit is feeling pretty put upon.
Just by showing up at a dealership intending to buy a new vehicle of any sort and providing whatever fuel economy, Americans nowadays are intrinsically making progress against oil dependency.
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Indeed, it seems obvious that these are the sorts of steps the Nation will be forced to take in the event the vulnerability represented by our oil dependency translates into a calamity.
In doing so, we would further reduce air pollution and our dependency on oil.
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"Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020, " said Mona Sahlin, Sweden's minister of sustainable development.
Irrespective of domestic reserves, its oil and gas import dependency rise towards 80% in the next decade.
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Other countries are ratcheting up their standards as well to cut emissions and reduce their dependency on oil.
Other countries are ratcheting up their standards as well in a bid to cut CO2 emissions and reduce their dependency on oil.
Although George Bush now argues that America needs to wean itself off its dependency on oil, his administration still refuses to take serious action.
In fact, diversification of the economy away from its dependency on oil and gas, is riding in the air, and the Forum panels had this thrust running deep.
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"Taxpayers get a good deal because they are reducing dependency on foreign oil, " he avers.
He recently unveiled his Pickens plan aimed at reducing our dependency on foreign oil.
Maybe Nat Gas will not solve all of our problems with job growth and dependency on foreign oil but Nat Gas will make a big hit.
While Congress is deliberating over ways to cut dependency on foreign oil and limit greenhouse gas emissions, states are taking the lead in promoting energy efficiency.
To reduce our dependency on foreign oil, we need to stop subsidizing oil companies that are already making record profits, and double down on clean energy, that creates jobs and creates opportunities in new industries but also improves our security, because we're not as dependent on foreign oil.
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Italian pasta and Indian rice are sold alongside milk powder from Dubai and reminders of recent aid dependency in the form of cooking oil from the World Food Programme.
The strong growth of the Venezuelan economy is almost solely based on the oil export revenues and fiscal measures, which have further strengthened this dependency.
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