Energy independence doesn’t mean U.S. would stop buying foreign oil
At a Brookings Institution discussion on energy challenges for the next president, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) says that energy independence doesn’t mean that the U.S. “would never buy oil from Mexico, or Canada, or Saudi Arabia” but that it would never be “held hostage” for oil supplies. (0:43)
May 12, 2008
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