Whenever anyone mentions James Woolsey in an article, they pretty much need to remind the reader that he was once head of the CIA. Well, it's true, but whenever he's been active recently, it's mostly to promote plug-in hybrids or some other green car technology. That's what he was doing in Santa Monica on Sunday, so we'll leave any scary spook stuff out of this report (but we will mention his participation in PNAC and his call, this past July, to bomb Syria, just so you know he's not your typical green car enthuisiast, although that might be obvious when you read what he had to say).

Woolsey said during a session called "Energy, Seciruty and the Long War of the 21st Century) that, because we're so dependent on oil and two-thirds of it is in the Persian Gulf, oil dependency is a security issue. While America's electric grid is vulnerable (remember how one tree in Ohio plunged many states into darkness a few years ago?), and terrorists are smarter than trees), at least the grid is here in the U.S. where we can control and modify is. That gives us - and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) - the advantage.

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