What is the United States Real Stand on Oil Dependence?
campaign in 2000 to weaken the United States dependence on foreign oil. The fact is though that this just hasn’t happened. Since President Bush has been in office the amount of oil used daily by the U.S has jumped from 8.6 million barrels a day to 9.2 million barrels a day. Not only that, but since Bush has been in office our dependence from foreign oil has jumped from 50% to 75%. Bush isn’t the only to blame for this. Another major topic in the realm of oil dependence is renewable source of energy. This brings up a bit of controversy. Currently the he United States fun the Hydrogen Fuel Cell program with 1.2 billion dollars. This number is large and sounds great, but why send funding to hydrogen fuel cell development? It was proven in the late 90’s that electric car (EV) technology is more ahead of its time then hydrogen by leaps and bounds. Yet, there is almost no funding by the government for EV projects. In 2004 General Motors discontinued there EV1 project. This project was starte
