Oil independence can be achieved. Your "experts" take no account of the newfound willingness to do it. With the right incentives, the private sector's investment in going green as well as the drive for renewable energy technologies this time coupled with what might be the public and government support, ask, as John McCain does, why not see what the ambitious effort brings?
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Rep. Duncan Hunter claimed the cost of administering and complying with the federal income tax is $250 billion a year, far higher than the figure given by a recent presidential advisory commission.
Analysis
The 90-minute debate was sponsored by the Des Moines Register and televised nationally on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and C-SPAN3. It was the final debate among GOP candidates before the first-in-the-nation Iowa presidential nomination caucuses, which are scheduled for Jan. 3.
We noted the following factual bloopers:
Move Over, Al Gore
Sen. John McCain of Arizona announced a lofty, and, according to experts on the subject, improbable goal of ending foreign oil imports in five years.
McCain: We have got to achieve energy independence, oil independence in this nation. I will make it a Manhattan Project, and we will in five years become oil independent.
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