Not if you take into consideration that the goal of the article (note the title was "Rising Oil Prices, Declining National Security") was to point out the effect of oil prices and oil dependency on our national security. The subject was not the ecnomic effect, but national security. Electricity should be able to be generated at more cost effective means and would not entail our being reliant on outside sources.
>>Here is an interesting policy piece on the price of oil and national security that is interesting:
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http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2008/0522_oil_sandalow.aspx>
>Tought this was one of you weaker links:
>using electric cars to a sizeable percentage will raise electricity cost
>(he seems to believe electricity just sits in the wall plug in)
>renewable energy will lessen fuel military transport not by a large degree
>renewable energy trucks will probably still have easily targetable signatures
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