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Brian Turner Turner 1
Professor Dimon
English 091
November 5, 2006
"Oil Dependency: Increase Research Funds"
America's dependency on foreign oil is slowly crippling the average citizen's hard-earned income with outrageous fluctuation in gas prices. The American government seriously needs to step it in gear and start taking action on possible supplemental energy sources to replace foreign oil and actually begin providing those sources to the public without overpricing. Today's foreign oil is polluting our air and crushing we as American's pockets. "Rising U.S. demand for imported oil accounts for more than a third of the U.S. trade deficit, draining more than $500 million per day out of the U.S. economy. Burning oil fouls the air, harms public health, and contributes significantly to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere" (www.fcnl.org). The problem...

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Title: Oil Dependency
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