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Friday, April 30, 2010 11:45 AM

In an effort to thwart terrorist attacks against Israel, 17 Jewish groups put a full page ad in the New York Times today calling for the end of America's reliance on foreign oil.

"By making energy security policy and climate change national priorities," the ad reads, "we can stop Iran from earning up to $100 million a day every day for the next for the next 40 years."

At the heart of this effort is an attempt by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), who organized the ad-buy, to "mobilize the American Jewish community to support comprehensive energy security efforts by stressing the pro-Israel benefits of such policy," according to a press release.

The ad is accompanied by a website, dontfundterror.org, that leads visitors to a petition asking senators to support energy security policy and climate change. "The power of oil is a yoke around our neck," Rabbi Steve Gutow, president of JCPA, said. "We need to be free of it."

The lobbying blitz comes at a time when energy legislation has stalled in the hill in the wake of the decision by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. to abandon talks as a means of pushing back against immigration reform efforts this year. However, the JCPA decision to get involved in the energy debate preceded Graham's move: "We want to bring the subject of energy independence way into the forefront [of policy discussions]," Gutow said.

In the coming weeks, JCPA and member groups will be gathering petitions across the country to deliver to members of Congress.

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Theodora

Monday, February 20, 2012

Foreign oil dependence cannot just be stopped. No one can put an end to it since most countries don't have sufficient resources. I actually think that the countries that can provide oil don't take enough advantage of it. This is my opinion, I can't be sure though; I’m more interested in public administration since I got a master of public administration degree. As for terrorist attacks, I don't think they'll stop anytime soon.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

I've recently taken a mba mph degree and I am working at a very famous company from Iran which is providing oil to a lot of countries. It will be great if these countries would use alternative oil but until this happens they will still depend on Iran.

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