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Energy Independence Isn't a Supply-Side Issue

WELL SAID! Too bad most americans are soooo ignorant on such an imporant issue (picture the thousands of GOP deligates chanting "Dill ,baby,drill!" echoing their shortsighted and also ignorant candidate).
Sadly, we were on the right track during the Carter administration. All of the progress on energy conservation and alternatives to oil were dismantled by that hero of the Republican Party, Ronald Reagan. He even had the solar water heating system on the White House removed! Idiocracy at work, or worse, a sop to the oil industry. Think of where we would be now if those incentives for alternative energy and conservation had been maintained and mandatory fuel mileage standards had continued to be improved. America's place in the world would not have slid so low and we would no longer live in fear of OPEC.