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Letter to the editor:

It’s time to begin reducing oil dependence

Sam Pizzo, Henderson

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | 2:04 a.m.

We’ve heard it hundreds of times, perhaps thousands of times: We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It has never happened and probably never will.

Just recently President Bush visited Saudi Arabia and spoke with King Abdullah. The president requested that the king consider increasing the flow of oil on the open market. As a gesture on the president’s visit, the Saudis said they will increase the flow of oil by 300,000 barrels of crude a day starting next month — a mere drop in the bucket.

Why should we have to beg the Saudis or any other member of OPEC for more oil? We should do as we have said over these past 40-plus years and truly find a way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We have the technology and know-how as well as the money to do it.

Discussion: 1 comment so far…

  1. By Teaser
    5/20/08 at 8:58 a.m.
    Suggest removal

    We beg because we have shoret-sighted leaders who cannot and will not think beyond 19th-century ideologies.

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