>>>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
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>>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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>The point was that our electricity infrastructure can fairly quickly grow to meet any forseeable transportation demands using much cheaper, non-petroleum fuels.
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>Electric vehicles should seriously reduce our oil imports. We'll still need oil for heavy transport (although rail can be greatly expanded and can slowly move to non-oil fuels) and air transport. We'll still need oil for military hardware (although a lot of that that can be slowly converted) and shipping for the forseeable future.

My point is that by changing your investments to less energy spending solutions (better house isolation, heating working on higher efficiency, coupuling energy generation to heating for large building groups) you will reduce imports even more. Plöease note that I am not arguing to reduce the standard of living but the means to achieve it.