Oil independence is possible, but does U.S. really want it?

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

A story by Kevin Hall in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel weighs the prospects of ending U.S. oil dependence:

President Bush's State of the Union pledge to end America's "oil addiction" and his tour of emerging energy technology centers, including Milwaukee, have touched off a national debate on how to achieve energy independence.

"The answer is pretty simple. We will never get to energy independence while we are using oil as the major fuel," said Severin Borenstein, director of the University of California Energy Institute in Berkeley.