Just as our lawmakers – State. Sen. Greg Evers and Rep. Matt Gaetz – want to return to the good old days of straight gasoline and do away with gasohol, fuel containing 10 percent ethanol. An influential military thinktank is urging the U.S. to cut its oil use by 30 percent over the next decade, as a national security imperative.
The report by the Military Advisory Board, titled “Ensuring America’s Freedom of Movement: a National Security Imperative to Reduce America’s Oil Dependence,” describes America’s reliance on imported oil as the “Achilles heel of our national security” and recommends that our country should drastically reduce its energy imports over the next decade – or else risk exposing the economy to devastating oil price shocks.
View report.