During my morning scan of yesterday’s headlines I couldn’t help but shake my head.
The saber-rattling antics of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez are back in the news. Ahmadinejad’s Iran faces another round of UN sanctions because of its pursuit of a nuclear weapons program. And Chavez is threatening to plunge the South American continent into war, starting with U.S. allied-Colombia.
It’s no surprise that Ahmadinejad and Chavez are the bad boys on the international block. And it should be no surprise what is funding their ambitions:
According to the US Energy Information Administration, Iran is the number 5 leading exporter of the world’s oil.
Venezuela is the world’s number 7 leading exporter of oil.
Its about time America adopts a market-based policy to develop clean-energy innovations that reduce our dependence on unstable sources of foreign oil – innovations that US businesses can then sell in foreign markets to other nations.
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