The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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the US is very unlikely to achieve energy independence. The writer of the NYT fluff piece uses the phrase "greater energy independence". One thing obama got kind of right yesterday was that the US has a very small percentage of the world's proven reserves. Having Mexico and Canada gets north america closer to 25% of the world's proven reserves and fortunately for the US both countries have relatively small populations (not so we can annex them ;^))

the 2nd half of this sentence is a joke:

How the country made this turnabout is a story of industry-friendly policies started by President Bush and largely continued by President Obama