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True progress on the question of energy security ultimately rests in the hands of elected officials and policymakers beset on all sides by competing interests. Yet U.S. energy policy has been widely criticized as short-sighted and unresponsive to key economic, environmental, and global realities. With a new congress and presidential administration about to take office, how should our leaders understand the meaning of “energy security,” and what must their top energy priorities be?

Promoting sustainable energy R&D?
Preparing the U.S. to move away from a “carbon-centric” economy?
Reduce dependence on foreign oil?
Protecting the economy from the detrimental effects of high energy costs?

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Yes, of course! Any reducation in our dependence on foreign oil will make our nation more independent and stable. We are too subject to the volatility of unstable regions...this is affecting everything from our economy on a grander scale to the cost of everyday living in the rising costs of energy.

Posted by KJM | September 18, 2008 10:40 AM

I am an environmental scientist; it is absolutely necessary to reduce dependence on petroleum products! There are ways to collect energy for "free" on this planet and distribute that energy around the globe. Best scenario: the sun. It shines everywhere, some places more than others, but it could be harnessed---if we can connect globally with electricity, telephone wires and cell towers, i tcan be done with solar energy. Coal is environmentally unsound (besides stripping the natural ecosystems, it leaves behind a tremendous amount of pollution. Hydro-electric dams cause massive ecological collapse. Nuclear power leaves behind toxic waste that will probably kill us all if we keep trying to use it as we have been. Proactically ever type of energy we have used to this point has left behind environmental disasters. I don't think most people have any idea of the massive destruction and pollution caused by our energy choices of the past. Use the best "nuclear energy" we have at our disposal: THE SUN. It will even allow green algaes to produce an biofuel, which is certainly greener than anything else we have thought of using. Thisplanet is a TERRARIUM and anything we do inside the system will have an effect on the total. Time we figured that out as Mars is not looking too hospitable....

Posted by SK | October 4, 2008 9:46 PM

Drill, baby, drill!

Posted by Real Joe | October 6, 2008 5:17 PM

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