McCain: U.S. Can’t Be Held Hostage for Oil

WASHINGTON – A top Republican lawmaker said Sunday that America must explore alternate energy sources to avoid being held hostage by
Iran or by “wackos” in Venezuela
“We’ve got to get quickly on a track to energy independence from foreign oil, and that means, among other things, going back to nuclear power,” McCain said on Fox News Sunday.

“We better understand the vulnerabilities that our economy, and our very lives, have when we’re dependent on Iranian mullahs and wackos in Venezuela,” said McCain, who challenged
President George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000.

AP