Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press ISBN13: 9781681340753

ISBN13: 9781681340753

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Going far beyond the economic data

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Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press ISBN13: 9781681340753A 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