Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press in the last year or

in the last year or so

--Jayne Anne Phillips

ISBN13: 9781433537677

Going far beyond the economic data

ISBN13: 9781979870733

Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press in the last year orA 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