Is oil independence an illusion?

year to move from the 1776 Declaration of Independence to the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain ceded control of the land east of the Mississippi to the young country. In 1973, Richard Nixon set another seven-year challenge: the U.S. would achieve independence from foreign sources of energy by the end of the decade.

Thirty five years later, the U.S. energy dependence has dramatically increased. Crude oil imports, for example, have more than tripled.

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