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Originally Posted by Caged Great
North America is already close to being energy independent and will be by 2020 at the latest if things do not change from what they are right now. I don't see why that's a concern, it's already been addressed
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This is one of those things that "could have been". The plan was to become energy independent, as all the candidates promised us in 2008. At our height, perhaps you can say right now, we are 50% energy self sufficient in North America and the other 50% comes from the Middle East. With this recent effort to cripple American and Canadian Oil Companies we have laid down over 60% of the drilling rigs here.
What effect will this have for the next 5 years? How does this effect our trade deficit going forward. And the best question, how has the current administration not done anything to protect the jobs and energy independence that it claimed it would? Hope and Change.