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The state in which a country is self-sufficient in it's energy supply and so has no need to import energy, or the political policy of trying to achieve this condition.

'''Energy independence''' is the state in which a country is self-sufficient in it's energy supply and so has no need to import energy, or the political policy of trying to achieve this condition.

In the [[United States]], '''energy independence''' is de facto equivalent to oil independence. Currently the US is heavily dependent on oil imports from the Middle East and Russia. Proponents of energy independence view this as weakening the country by making it dependent on international oil prices and vulnerable to threats from oil exporters, and so campaign for efforts to reach independence by either increasing domestic production, decreasing oil demand, or a combination of the two approaches.

In the [[United States]], energy independence is ''de facto'' equivalent to [[oil]] independence. Currently the US is heavily dependent on oil imports from the [[Middle East]] and [[Russia]]. Proponents of energy independence view this as weakening the country by making it dependent on international oil prices and vulnerable to threats from oil exporters, and so campaign for efforts to reach independence by either increasing domestic production, decreasing oil demand, or a combination of the two approaches.