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Originally Posted by Pipe_Dream
It has nothing to do with Bush, and everything to do with the US's unwillingness to become energy self-sufficient. We won't allow new refineries to be built. We aren't willing to tap into our own oil deposits in the ANWR and off our coastlines. We waste fuel.
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The reason for this is WWII. The government realised the need to be self sufficient during a global crisis.
I don't like buying foreign oil or having ours preserved for something that might never happen, but you never know.