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  • The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.

    "'I Am Optimistic'". Interview with Philip Bethge, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 02, 2009.
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