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Bill Moyers has another startling suggestion. Reduce our need for
oil. In a keynote address to the Environmental Grantmakers
Association on October 16, 2001 Moyers asked, "Do we want to send the
terrorists a message? Go for conservation. Go for clean, home-grown
energy."
He said, "As for national security, well, it's time to expose the
energy plan before Congress for the dinosaur it is. Everyone knows
America needs to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel. But this energy
plan is more of the same: more subsidies for the rich, more
pollution, more waste, more inefficiency... America's unchecked
consumption of oil has become our Achilles heel. It leaves our
economy dangerously vulnerable to price shocks. It invites
environmental degradation, ecological disasters, and potentially
catastrophic climate change."
He's right.
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