![The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-climate-financial-and-national-security-crises-are-all-connected-they-share.jpg)
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