Fighting an Oil Addiction

In truth, that addiction is far more lethal than just the environmental and economic threats posed by America’s unabated use of petroleum. Oil profits help

fund terrorism just as they help build gleaming new cities in the desert.

America’s addiction to oil is certainly more directly responsible for the attacks of 9/11 than was, say, Saddam Hussein. And the only reason Iran can continue to thumb its nose at the world as it tries to build a nuclear bomb is because it has the world’s second largest oil reserves.

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