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Limit our fossil fuel consumption and so we cant just talk about banning fracking without talking about specifics on alternatives to liquid transportation fuels and alternatives to natural gas in the power sector obama did call it a bridge fuel in terms of getting us off coal but it seems to be much more of a geo political issue we see with the fracking and the doubling of production its really hailed across bipartisan issues as like where the Number One Oil producer in the world so once it jumps to that level it becomes way more difficult to get off it what do you think about this the Obama Administration could take this is a when i think weve seen the world flip flop from 2008 to today weve basically seen the us go from importing 50000000 barrels a day of oil to down to less than 2000000 barrels a day at the same time china is now importing. Almost 10000000000 barrels a day so now china has become what we were in the seventys and we had the oil crisis i mean the next problem with oil