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Keeping fossil fuels in use for national security reasons doesn't make a nation safer.

It makes a nation's national defense vulnerable to the whims of petrostate despots & megalomaniacal oil oligarchs.

Murderous thugs like #PrinceBonesaw & Putin use fossil fuel supply to manipulate elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_States)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/12/biden-vows-consequences-for-saudi-arabia-after-oil-output-cuts

Pearl Harbor was triggered by an oil embargo.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dlpr074q3o

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/21/unease-in-japan-after-trump-uses-pearl-harbor-to-defend-iran-war

Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States) - Wikipedia

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