Then, as social opprobrium is displaced by acceptance followed by imitation, unproductive dependence becomes a way of life.
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To conservation-minded home or business owners, the turbines are an investment in clean energy and one way to ease America's dependence on foreign oil.
Be that as it may, the case they make against the path-dependence paradigm as a way to see the world could hardly be stronger: it is a big idea that simply fails to stand up.
That goes a long way toward building trust, loyalty and dependence.
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Supporters say it's the best way to begin reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.
Boone Pickens, now touting wind energy as a fix for electricity generation, favors natural gas as a way to alleviate the transportation sector's dependence on oil.
Obstacles to Western European dependence on Russian energy supplies have given way to a natural gas infrastructure that relies heavily on such sources.
With four-dollar-a-gallon fuel prices here at home, it's simple to just look at fuel consumption as a way to save a few dollars and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
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The administration has pushed a "green energy" agenda nationally as a way to create jobs and lessen U.S. dependence on oil imports.
Reducing America's petrol consumption by 20% by 2017, a target he announced in the state-of-the-union address, would certainly diminish the country's dependence on Middle Eastern oil, but the way he plans to go about it may not be either efficient or clean.
Still, way back in 1979, it revised its objectives to reduce dependence on oil, and its current objectives include energy security, environmental protection, and economic growth.
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We've found, through a leaked Scottish government document, that there's cross-party agreement that dependence on offshore oil and gas revenue is no way for a small country to plan its budgets.
The global village aspect and intertwined economic dependence on each other can be seen in the way global economies enter and exit recessions together, and see their stock markets enter and exit bull and bear markets together.
Given the certainty of this rule, we were able to push the 2020 target to 2016, in a way that, again, helps our goals in reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and gives auto manufacturers the certainty that they have always wanted on the manufacturing side.
The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of health care, the schools that aren't preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit.
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