But we need to reduce our reliance on them even as our demand for power increases.
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As our conventional capabilities improve, we will continue to reduce our reliance on nuclear weapons.
Society ignoring our reliance on oil is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.
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Destruction caused by devastating storms and other natural disasters this year underscored our reliance on our critical infrastructure.
It will also slash U.S. oil consumption by 12 billion barrels, dramatically reducing our reliance on foreign suppliers.
The best we can do as consumers is to do our best to reduce our reliance on gasoline for transportation.
Our reliance on oil makes us way too dependent on other parts of the world, many of which are very volatile.
One nice thing about an energy tax is that it would reduce our reliance on foreign oil and environmentally-destructive energy practices.
With the help of a broad solar array and a bio-digester, we are also slowly eliminating our reliance on fossil fuel.
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Email has done much to break our reliance on tree consuming printers with their tremendous revenue streams for the replacement cartridge industry.
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Dr Stuttaford says our reliance on drugs like ibuprofen goes hand in hand in the UK with the decline in GP services.
The later would reduce imports, increase exports, and, by improving our balance of payments reduce our reliance on foreign saving to finance domestic investments.
The Senate is considering clean-energy and climate legislation that would put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and cut carbon emissions.
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Mabus says U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a strategic vulnerability that can only be alleviated by reducing our reliance on petroleum as the sole military fuel.
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Proponents argue that offshore drilling is safer than ever and that we need more of the oil buried under the sea to lessen our reliance on imports.
Our military leaders recognize the security imperative of increasing the use of alternative fuels, decreasing energy use, reducing our reliance on imported oil, making ourselves more energy-efficient.
The goal in doing so: We will reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil to less than 50 percent by 2010 to protect our energy security.
This will have a significant impact on our reliance on foreign oil, but also it will have a significant impact on the budgets of families all across the country.
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And of course, reducing water consumption does not mitigate concerns about prolonging our reliance on fossil fuels or the inherently ugly nature of extractive industry, especially for local neighbors.
Finally, the most critical caveat of energy security is that we keep in mind the ultimate goal that, someday, we will need to completely eliminate our reliance on oil.
Jump back to 1975 and the institution of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements designed to limit our reliance on foreign oil in the wake of the Arab oil embargo.
But it is by no means in contradiction to decreasing our reliance on foreign oil, because we also want to increase the production of domestic oil sources, both offshore and onshore.
And this bill also reduces waste and fraud in our contracting system, as well as our reliance on private contractors for jobs that federal employees have the expertise and the training to do.
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And in some ways, by many other measures, it's one of the most important accomplishments of this administration, which is that we can significantly reduce our reliance on foreign oil because of those increased standards.
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Mr. CARTER KEITHLEY (President, Toy Industry Association): Clearly, there is an important role for government to play as a watchdog and an enforcer, but history has proven the success of our reliance upon private sector safety initiatives.
Moreover, our reliance on so few plants and animal breeds makes human populations that much more vulnerable to climate change: as growing conditions change, the most suitable species, breeds or strains in a given region may likewise change.
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It was hailed by several scientists as a step toward producing the first man-made organism that, according to Venter, could as soon as five years from now help solve global warming by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.
And the disaster in the Gulf only underscores that even as we pursue domestic production to reduce our reliance on imported oil, our long-term security depends on the development of alternative sources of fuel and new transportation technologies.
Mr. SIDNEY DRELL (Stanford University): We have to convince many nations that we are serious about our commitment to the non-proliferation regime which calls on us to reduce our reliance on the weapons, reduce our arsenals, not to resume testing.
We know that under his leadership and during his presidency domestic production of oil and gas -- natural gas -- has increased, and our reliance on imports of foreign oil has decreased to its lowest level in I think something like 16 years.
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