This phrase "energy independence" that we keep hearing in defense of oil, coal and fracking rests upon a logical fallacy and is a red herring. Every extraction or expenditure of earth's resources for "energy" depends upon the actions of many determined or otherwise ignorant persons and has innumerable life threatening effects which are not at all beneficial to life on earth. We will never be truly independent, even with solar or wind power. And we'll still be plundering the earth for her other privatized "commodities"!
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