Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press Going far beyond the economic

Going far beyond the economic data

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ISBN13: 9781433537677

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ISBN10: 178842204X

Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press Going far beyond the economicA bracing corrective to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diplomatic policy, dispelling our oil soaked fantasies of dependence. There is a conventional wisdom about oil that the U. S. military presence in the Persian Gulf is what guarantees access to this strategic resource; that the special relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market; and that these assumptions in turn provide Washington