Comments on: What is energy independence? http://arfore.com/2008/04/09/what-is-energy-independence/ welcome to the foremind Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ez http://arfore.com/2008/04/09/what-is-energy-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-109 ez Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:53:45 +0000 http://arfore.com/?p=105#comment-109 For the most part the United States is dependent upon foreign countries to supply us with the raw or finished material. The United States currently does not produce enough oil from domestic sources to fulfill even half the amount we currently use. We manipulate governments and companies where we can acquire oil ending the oil flow today would tumble our economy into a dire depression worse than the Great Depression. Therefore, Energy Independence is a return to isolationism whereby we produce the raw material for ourselves and are no longer needing to depend on other countries. It is less about energy than about foreign policy. Our uranium comes from Australia and Canada. Though, as I understand it, our pressure on South Africa to end Aparteid was after obtaining our independence from SA uranium in the late 1980s. For the most part the United States is dependent upon foreign countries to supply us with the raw or finished material. The United States currently does not produce enough oil from domestic sources to fulfill even half the amount we currently use. We manipulate governments and companies where we can acquire oil ending the oil flow today would tumble our economy into a dire depression worse than the Great Depression.

Therefore, Energy Independence is a return to isolationism whereby we produce the raw material for ourselves and are no longer needing to depend on other countries.

It is less about energy than about foreign policy.

Our uranium comes from Australia and Canada. Though, as I understand it, our pressure on South Africa to end Aparteid was after obtaining our independence from SA uranium in the late 1980s.

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