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In 1974 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Richard Nixon
said, “At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States
will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need.”
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In 1975 with 36.1% of oil from foreign sources, President Gerald Ford
said, “We must reduce oil imports by one million barrels per day by the
end of this year and by two million barrels per day by the end of 1977.”
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In 1979 with 40.5% of oil from foreign sources, President Jimmy Carter
said, “Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign
oil than we did in 1977 – never.”
* In 1981 with 43.6% of oil
from foreign sources, President Ronald Reagan said, “While conservation
is worthy in itself, the best answer is to try to make us independent of
outside sources to the greatest extent possible for our energy.”
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In 1992 with 47.2% of oil from foreign sources, President George Bush
said, “When our administration developed our national energy strategy,
three principles guided our policy: reducing our dependence on foreign
oil…”
* In 1995 with 49.8% of oil from foreign sources, President
Bill Clinton said, “The nation’s growing reliance on imports of
oil…threatens the nation’s security…[we] will continue efforts
to…enhance domestic energy production.”
* In 2006 with 65.5% of
oil from foreign sources, President George W. Bush said,
“Breakthroughs…will help us reach another great goal: to replace more
than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.”
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In 2009 with 66.2% of oil from foreign sources, President Barack Obama
said, “It will be the policy of my administration to reverse our
dependence on foreign oil while building a new energy economy that will
create millions of jobs.”
Source:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/The-Daily-Reckoning/2010/0430/A-history-of-false-starts-for-US-energy
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