Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
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Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.
Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.
I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
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