Addicted to oil: America's relentless drive for energy security by Ian Rutledge

Author:Ian Rutledge [Rutledge, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Industries, Technology & Engineering, Iraq, Government policy, Government, Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum, General, United States, Petroleum reserves, Political Science, Energy Industries, International Relations, Automobile industry and trade, Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781845113193
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Published: 2006-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

A D D I C T E D T O O I L

2000.41 This new right-wing Republican Administration – an alliance between the corporate oil and energy interest represented by the ‘Axis of Oil’ and a group of extreme Reaganite ideologues dubbed ‘neo-conservatives’ by the media –would not fail to take whatever action was deemed necessary to safeguard America’s completely motorised way of life. But as the new millennium dawned, and America’s dependence on oil imports from the Gulf reached a new all-time high, there were grave warnings of an impending energy crisis of unprecedented severity; and although there were different views as to the precise nature of that crisis – as we shall see in the next chapter – there was general agreement among the different expert bodies of opinion that such a crisis was fast approaching.

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