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Cheney Weighs in on Nation's Energy Future: Drill... Everywhere. By Zachary A. Goldfarb, WashPost, June 12, 2008. "[In comments to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wednesday,] VP Cheney... called for a substantial increase in domestic drilling for oil and other natural resources, including in environmentally sensitive areas, saying that only increased production -- and not new technology -- will satisfy the nation's demand for energy. 'We are an economy that runs on petroleum. Some 20 million barrels of it a day. That can and will change over time, but it will be a very long time,' [said Cheney], the former head of oil company Halliburton... [who] chided lawmakers for blocking oil companies from drilling off the nation's coasts and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge... Democrats failed in their effort this week to impose new taxes on the soaring profits of energy companies, which Cheney called 'exactly the wrong way to address carbon issues.'"