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EDITORIAL: Addicted To Oil? What To Do.(Editorial)

The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC )

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Feb. 7--Addicted to oil? What to do Q. In his State of the Union speech, President Bush called for cutting oil imports from the Middle East and for developing better technology to reduce U.S. dependency on oil. What do you think? Jordan Frederick, 17, East Mecklenburg High School, Charlotte: With technological advancement comes even greater dependency on the "black gold" of the Middle East; not only do we use oil as gasoline to fuel automobiles, but as the base for more common goods such as clothing and plastics. What might happen, say, if our oil suppliers were to declare war upon us? It is by no means safe for the United States to lean so completely on foreign exporters of…

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