Oil Dependence

Author : Michael T. Klare
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429900571
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Oil written by Michael T. Klare and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.

Author : Noah Berlatsky
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737776358
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Oil Dependence written by Noah Berlatsky and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores the issue of the United States' dependence on oil. Can the country attain energy independence? Does the dependence on foreign oil weaken the economy? Is dependence on foreign oil a security threat? Can the United States transition from oil if it must, or is the country too deeply invested? This book gives evidence to both sides of these questions. Features previously published content from sources such as Jordan Weissman, Anne Korin, Pew Charitable Trusts, and the National Corn Growers Association.

Author : John S. Duffield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804763295
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over a Barrel written by John S. Duffield and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is highly dependent on foreign oil. Well over half of the oil and petroleum products consumed in America--approximately 12 million barrels per day, or more than 600 gallons for every man, woman, and child each year--now come from abroad. And the U.S. government projects that the level of imports will only continue to rise, reaching between 16 and 21 million barrels per day by 2025. What precisely are the costs of U.S. foreign oil dependence? Unfortunately, no one has yet offered a satisfactory answer to this vital question. As a result, the costs to the United States of its dependence on oil from abroad have gone largely unrecognized and, in fact, are much greater than most people realize. Some costs, like the annual bill for oil imports--and, by reflection, the price that motorists pay at the pump or the size of homeowners' heating oil bills--are obvious and quantifiable. A number of others, however, are not so apparent or easy to measure. For example, it is difficult to put a price tag on the costs of coddling oil-rich authoritarian regimes at the expense of promoting representative government, human rights, and other important values. This book seeks to remedy this oversight by providing the first comprehensive analysis of the costs--both economic and policy-related--of U.S. foreign oil dependence and how they might be reduced. It shows that since the 1970s, the economic costs alone have run into the trillions of dollars. Successive administrations have tended to neglect the opportunities at home to reduce these costs by limiting demand. Instead, they have emphasized foreign and military policies that have proven both highly expensive and largely unsuccessful. One positive conclusion the author draws is that the opportunities for reducing oil consumption remain largely unexploited and the costs of U.S. foreign oil dependence can still be substantially reduced at relatively little expense. At least as important, however, will be rethinking and revising the expensive foreign, security, and military policies and commitments that have developed around U.S. foreign oil dependence over the past three decades.

Author : Ivan Eland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598130461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No War for Oil written by Ivan Eland and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking numerous myths that have emerged about the world's resources of oil, this book argues that the use of U.S. military power to secure oil is not only needless and costly--in both lives and money--but also counterproductive to U.S. security. Intended to make government, the media, and citizens think more rationally about oil and the use of military power to secure it, this account suggests that the free market is still the best vehicle to deliver the product most efficiently from producer to consumer and that a withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Persian Gulf would be beneficial in the context of potential terrorist threats. Thorough and invaluable, this focused analysis chronicles the history of the battle over oil.

Author : Joshua Tickell
Publisher : Biodiesel America
ISBN 13 : 9780970722744
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biodiesel America written by Joshua Tickell and published by Biodiesel America. This book was released on 2006 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy compromise, and the true potential for a fossil-fuel-free future. Book jacket.

Author : Susan Hunnicutt
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780737740608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Oil Dependence written by Susan Hunnicutt and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores the issue of the United States' dependence on oil. Can the country attain energy independence? Does the dependence on foreign oil weaken the economy? Is dependence on foreign oil a security threat? Can the United States transition from oil if it must, or is the country too deeply invested? This book gives evidence to both sides of these questions. Features previously published content from figures such as Barack Obama, Skikha Dalmia, Julia A. Seymour, and Bradford Plumer.

Author : Sebastian Herbstreuth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857738380
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil and American Identity written by Sebastian Herbstreuth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoint even as domestic fracking eases the US' reliance on imported energy. Oil and American Identity offers a fresh perspective on the subject by reframing 'energy dependency' as a cultural discourse with intimate connections to American views on independence, freedom, consumption, abundance, progress and American exceptionalism. Through a detailed reading of primary literature, Sebastian Herbstreuth also shows how the dangers of foreign oil are linked to American descriptions of foreign oil producers as culturally different und thus 'undependable'. Herbstreuth shows how even reliable imports from the Middle East are portrayed as dangerous and undesirable because this region is particularly 'foreign' from an American point of view, while oil from friendly countries like Canada is cast as a benign form of energy trade. Oil and American Identity rewrites the history of U.S. foreign oil dependence as a cultural history of the United States in the 20th century.

Author : John S. Duffield
Publisher : Stanford Law & Politics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over a Barrel written by John S. Duffield and published by Stanford Law & Politics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a Barrel provides the first comprehensive analysis of the costs of U.S. foreign oil dependence and how they might be reduced.

Author : International Transport Forum
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9282102521
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ITF Round Tables Oil Dependence Is Transport Running Out of Affordable Fuel? written by International Transport Forum and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the policy instruments available to address oil security and climate change and examines their interaction with measures to manage congestion and mitigate local air pollution.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Security and Oil Dependence written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: