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Giuliani on Energy Independence in Spartanburg, SC

-- John -- 02/22/2007

On Wednesday, February 21, Mayor Rudi Giuliani spoke to supporters at a Spartanburg, SC fire station.  According to Dan Hoover, staff reporter for the Greenville News, Mayor Giuliani addressed America’s need to achieve energy independence:

In calling for energy independence, Giuliani said everything must be on the table, including exploratory drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and in potential seabed fields off the East Coast.

"We have to look at all these things a second time, with more of an emphasis of solving this problem of energy independence," including greater use of nuclear, wind and solar power, cleaning up coal and stepped-up ethanol use, he said.

In proposing an Apollo-like program similar to the crash plan to land on the moon in the 1960s, Giuliani said, "Even if it costs more money, that money is being spent in our economy, it all gets produced here. Americans get to build it, Americans get to run it, Americans get to profit from it and we're in control of it.

"The sooner we get to energy independence, the safer we're going to be."