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For more than two decades, we have been in almost continual combat operations in the Middle East over access to foreign oil. More than 40 percent of the foreign oil we import comes from nations that national security experts rank as “hostile” to U.S. interests.

Our national addiction to foreign oil has cost the lives of thousands of U.S. service men and women, and cost taxpayers trillions of dollars. A peer-reviewed study published by the journal Energy Policy calculated that taxpayers have paid more than $7.3 trillion over the last 30 years for our military to defend access to Middle Eastern oil. That’s a staggering $225 billion annually.

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