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"Mr President, this report is absolutely right to point out that more and more countries regard energy policy as power politics. That being the case, it is actually a very sensible idea that we in the EU, in Europe, should do something to ensure that we are independent instead of, as at present, filling the pockets of potential terrorists with oil money in the Middle East or eastern European oligarchs and their ilk. If, however, you take a look at the policies that are being implemented in the EU from a purely practical point of view, you will find yourself shaking your head. What do you see? You see wind turbines, solar cells, wave power and so on. Everything we have set up, we have set up in order to generate electricity. Yet is it electricity that we import from the Middle East? Or is it electricity that we import from Russia? No, it is not, and that means that our focus is completely wrong. We should be focusing on what we fill our cars with. We have a great many options in terms of biomass, biogas and others, but we are wasting them, as we are so obsessed with filling the entire continent with the wind turbines, solar cells and wave power that we have."@en1
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