The Need to Get Off Foreign Oil

New technologies are advancing to the marketplace. but consumers can be wary of change. If they unequivocally demand alternatives to gasoline, for example, the marketplace will be activated, but �ere is plenty of resistance to overcome. Recently, the president of Shell Oil, John Hoffmeister, expressed his views on world demand for energy and business opportunities ahead. Shell Oil's position, as Hoffmeister explained it, is �at America will always need foreign oil even as it aggressively develops alternatives such as solar, wind, ethanol, gasification, and hydrogen sources of power. This view contradicts those who have strenuously argued that our national security requires an end to foreign oil dependence, especially in the Middle East. It is difficult, if not impossible, to have an intelligent conversation about energy if we cannot agree that independence from foreign oil or, in the very long run, independence from fossil fuel, is achievable. In the best of circumstances, it will take time to end our dependence, but many experts believe it is time to commit to this worthy goal. Our national security and our nation's economy depends on supply and demand shifts that are orderly, predictable, and carefully managed. Chaos is the enemy of national security.

Notes:

Gingrich argues that we cannot have an intelligent conversation on alternative energies and oil production unless we agree on this principle.

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A contract with the Earth

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Gingrich , Newt and Maple , Terry (2007-09-24), A contract with the Earth, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Retrieved on 2012-03-22

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