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Energy Goals Are Well-Presidented

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The Associated Press

Published: November 4, 2008

WASHINGTON - It will be 35 years this week since President Richard Nixon, responding to an Arab oil embargo, vowed to make the United States energy independent - and do it in seven years.

America is still waiting.

Is it possible, or even desirable? Many energy experts say it's not. People disagree on what energy independence means - zero energy imports, or something less? And even if the United States were energy independent, would it be insulated from global oil price shocks, with oil priced in a global marketplace? Again, energy experts say don't count on it.
President Bush and the six presidents before him have all called for reductions in the country's reliance on foreign oil, some promising energy independence that has yet to be achieved. What they said:

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