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Solar energy has a huge potential to help solve America's reliance on fossil fuels. However, most of the petroleum consumed in this country, as in the world, is used as a transportation fuel. In other words, we're not making electricity with petroleum, we're making the gasoline and diesel that runs our automobiles and the kerosene that keeps our planes in the sky. Where solar energy really can help is in cutting our reliance on the coal and natural gas that together are used to make roughly 70 percent of this nations' electricity, and coal is one of the largest sources of the carbon dioxid...