Romney promises energy independence by 2021
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}March 31, 2012: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, shakes hands with U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Chairman of the House Budget Committee, right, before speaking with supporters of Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker at a phone bank during a campaign stop in Fitchburg, Wis. (AP)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has promised voters in coal-rich eastern Ohio that America won't have to buy oil from Venezuela or the Middle East by the time his second term ends in 2021.
Romney stopped Tuesday outside a coal mine in Beallsville, where he said the U.S. would be independent from energy sources outside North America if he were elected in November and served two, four-year terms.
Introducing Romney was Josh Mandel, who is running against Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Mandel says that would happen only, in his words, "over our dead bodies."
Romney was finishing a four-day bus tour with three stops in Ohio.