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Imported oil accounted for more than half the US trade deficit last year.
• The federal government is spending as much on the Persian Gulf war every five to 10 hours as it has budgeted for energy-efficiency research in all of fiscal 1991.
Let us hope that one of the positive outcomes of this war will be a willingness for Americans to confront the hard choices we need to make about energy before we bankrupt ourselves financially and morally. We can do more than tie a yellow ribbon on our door knob!
TOM DAVENPORT
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