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The Cost of Energy Security: High Gas Prices

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Prices posted at a gas station in downtown Los Angeles where gas is selling for over five dollars a gallon on March 16, 2012 in California. (Frederic J. Brown / Getty Images)

How to achieve energy independence?

That's the question I undertook to answer (in less than 400 words!) for the Jewish Policy Center.

[W]e have to start from this fact: energy security means paying more for energy—forever. The promise of cheap oil from North American sources is a false promise, and the promise of cheap fuel from non-oil sources (e.g. bio-fuels) is even falser.

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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