Obama wants to reduce the amount of fuel imports

On wednesday President Obama called for one-third reduction on oil imports over the next decade, and made it clear that that the effort had to begin immediately. The United States has consumed between three and four million barrels a day of imported fuel, thats a lot considering they say they want to cut down on fuel intake. The president said that the United States cannot continue to consume one-quater of the worlds oil production while possessing only two percent of global reserves. A long-term plan needs to begin to reduce the reliance of imported oil because as we all have been told for the past 30 years approximately every president has said that they are going to reduce the amount of fuel imported to the United States but has never lived up to it. In reality I believe that there is no quick fix to the nation's oil addiction, people rely way to much on fuel to get them through their daily lives. Obama introduces a mix of new strategies, none of them new, and all seem impossible to weaning the nation off the barrel.  People often say that a good fuel-saving strategy is producing more electric cars and converting trucks and buses to run on natural gas which would be great but would it really stop the amount of fuel used? I don't believe that it would make to much of a difference because thats a big purchase people would have to make and I don't think right now is a time many people could afford a big purchase like that. "We're going to have to find ways to boost our efficiency so that we use less oil. We've got to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy that also produce less carbon pollution that is threatening our climate. And we have to do it quickly" President Obama said. Although Obama may have multiple good strategies about that Government reducing the amount of fuel imported to the United States, he isn't reliable enough in my eyes to actually get anything done other than put this country in debt billions of more dollars. We have heard all of these strategies multiple times from all the previous presidents and none of them have seemed to work I believe that its going to take a little less talking and a lot more action to actually wean the nation off the barrel. The nation has a tendency, ever since the first Arab oil embargo in 1973, to panic when gasoline prices rise and then fall back into old fuel-guzzling habits when prices reduce. When gas prices go up everyone is quick to be upset and cause a big uproar and when they go down no one worry's about the fuel economy. That strongly is the governments fault, because when the people stop complaining it gets pushed to the bottom of their lists of concerns, how is anything ever going to get solved if you don't constantly enforce the issue and work on it until its solved? Since the nation is so far in debt with China and multiple other countries that should be a big eye opener that they need to stop using other countries goods and resources such as oil and start using Americans to do the labor needed to make things, and our land to get resources such as oil. When their are big tragedies that happen in Countries where we get our oil and they can no longer produce oil for the time being or even if they wanna start selling the barrels of oil for more money they can do that. If i was one of them countries I would be charging the United States way more money for the fuel that they use just because I could. The United States has very few of its own oil drills which relies heavily on other countries. Although fuel imports is a big issue in this country I don't believe that anything will ever change until people start stressing the issue more and take action instead of talking about it.