Ryan Johnson/Grand Forks Herald/ July 8, 2010

After four decades of talking about the need for energy independence in America, leaders of a Thursday press conference in downtown Grand Forks said it’s time to break the country’s addiction to foreign oil.

After four decades of talking about the need for energy independence in America, leaders of a Thursday press conference in downtown Grand Forks said it’s time to break the country’s addiction to foreign oil.

“With America’s $1 billion per day addiction to oil and the disaster in the Gulf, it presents us with a clear choice,” said Jason Schaefer, North Dakota representative of the National Wildlife Federation.

“We can either keep delaying or we can finally take action to become energy independent,” he said.

About 20 people gathered at the Porpoura Coffee House to see copies of the “Declaration of Energy Independence,” which explains how the country’s dependence on foreign oil has increased in the past 40 years and calls for Congress to pass a plan to change that.

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