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The one-time Texas oil industry executive also admitted on Tuesday night that "America is addicted to oil", and set a goal of replacing 75 per cent of the nation's Middle East oil imports by 2025.
To do this Mr Bush called for 22 per cent more federal funding for research into alternative fuels, seeing the prospect of cars running on hydrogen and ethanol fuel. But he made no mention of drilling in Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The 2025 goal was more modest than it might have appeared - the US gets less than 20 per cent of its oil from the Persian Gulf - and the speech was notable largely for a lack of big new proposals from a president who for five years has not shied away from provocative and politically risky initiatives.
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