For many decades, politicians have been touting U.S. energy independence — the idea that if the United States could produce the oil it uses, instead of importing it, the country would be insulated from supply issues and geo-political turmoil that cause the price of oil to go up.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong talks with the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy Jason Bordoff.
Find our first story in this series on falsehoods here.
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