Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press --Jayne Anne Phillips

--Jayne Anne Phillips

in the last year or so

in the little town of Gustavus

through notes

ISBN10: 178842204X

Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy Bellevue Literary Press --Jayne Anne PhillipsA 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