Rising Call: Cut U.S. Oil Imports

Outside official Washington, which is laboring over an energy bill, energy-independence plans are popping up across the American political landscape. Liberals and conservatives, ecologists and former military brass have reached the same conclusion: The United States needs a radical change in energy policy. The way to do it, they agree, is through a mix of conservation and new-but-available technology that could quickly begin to reduce US reliance on some of the most volatile regions of the world.

These rumblings are the beginning of possibly the most radical rethink of energy policy since the 1970s.
Christian Science Monitor