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Have a remote control shutoff valve that is mandatory in at least two other countries and is used voluntarily by two other drilling companies. in 2000 the minerals management service began considering making that and other backup measures mandatory. the oil industry pushed back against the device. three years later, an administration led by two oil men, including the former ceo of halliburton, decided not to mandate any new backup systems. the shutoff valve being "not recommended because they tend to be very costly." they cost $500,000. less than mary landrieu has received from the oil industr...

In order to save energy and taxpayer dollars, my administration led by secretary chu at energy as well as administrator johnson at gsa is doubling the number of hybrid vehicles in the federal fleet, even as we seek to reduce the numbers of cars and trucks used by the government overall. so we're going to lead by example and practice what we preach, cutting waste, saving energy and reducing our reliance on foreign oil, but we have to do more. we need to make continued investments in clean coal technologies and advanced biofuels. a few weeks ago i announced loan guarantees to break ground on ame...

Country to reach a historic agreement to raise fuel economy standards in cars and trucks. and tomorrow, after decades in which we have done little to increase auto efficiency, those new standards will be finalized, which will reduce our dependence on oil while helping folks spend a little less at the pump. my administration is upholding its end of the deal. we expect all parties to do the same. i'd also point out, this rule we're going to be announcing about increased mileage standards will save 1.8 billion barrels of oil overall. 1.8 billion barrels of oil. that's like taking 58 million cars ...

Security council, that allows us frankly, chris, at a time when we're seeing us stretched to unbelievable military support of the situation in japan, ongoing effort, obviously in afghanistan and our ongoing effort to wind down the war in iraq, we thought it was much more important rather than sit by and watch the slaughter of these innocents, to bring along is the international community. we didn't wait to see where the international community was, we brought them along. now we have an opportunity to press for the kind of opportunity for 9 opposition that i think they're looking for and they'r...