[P-40]

Same question back to you.

It would depend on just how independent we become, would it not? If you were to subtract what is paid to protect our non-domestic energy interests from the national budget, even adjusting for the loss of sales revenue from equipment sold...you are talking billions.

[thackney]

I don't agree. I don't see the military cost going down at all. We did not go to Afghanistan because of oil. Or Somalia, or Kosovo, or Vietnam, or Korea. I believe if we were not in Iraq now, we would probably be in North Korea. I think we can and should be 100% energy independent, at least cut down to supplies from North America. It would not take new technology or great changes. It would only take the will to produce our own resources. We now import more uranium than we produce. We have let environmentalists and democrats strangle this country.