By so doing, we can make our economy and security less reliant on a commodity whose purchase requires us to transfer tens of billions of dollars every year to regimes that are unstable at best, and violently hostile at worst. (For more on this initiative, see Step 3 of War Footing: Ten Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World, Naval Institute Press, 2005).
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