Oil Junkies

Oil Junkies

Like every story of addiction and dependence, our country's addiction to oil is an ugly, shameful tale. For decades, our shortsighted leaders have kept us hooked on petroleum as a way to enrich major U.S. oil companies. Now, America is a junkie hitting rock bottom. Our army is bogged down in the Middle East. We're stuck with millions of gas-guzzling SUVs. And trillions of our dollars fuel the regimes of dictators in places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Russia. We desperately need an intervention. Yet all our politicians do is give big oil companies outrageous tax credits while offering phony "solutions" like corn ethanol.

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