Blood and oil : the dangers and consequences of America's growing dependency on imported petroleum

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Title:

Author:

Klare, Michael T., 1942-

ISBN:

9780805079388

Personal Author:

Klare, Michael T., 1942-

Edition:

1st Owl Books ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Henry Holt, 2005.

Physical Description:

xvi, 277 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

General Note:

"With a new afterword"--Cover.

"The American empire project"--Cover.

"An Owl book"

Contents:

The dependency dilemma: imported oil and national security -- Lethal embrace: the American alliance with Saudi Arabia -- Choosing dependency: the energy strategy of the Bush Administration -- Trapped in the Gulf: the irresistible lure of bountiful petroleum -- No safe havens: oil and conflict beyond the Persian Gulf -- Geopolitics reborn: the U.S.-Russian-Chinese struggle in the Persian Gulf and Caspian Basin -- Escaping the dilemma: a strategy for energy autonomy and integrity -- Afterword: the permanent energy crisis.

Subject Term:

Petroleum industry and trade -- United States.

Energy policy -- United States.

National security -- United States.

Pâetrole -- Industrie et commerce -- âEtats-Unis.

Politique âenergâetique -- âEtats-Unis.

Sâecuritâe nationale -- âEtats-Unis.

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Summary

In his pathbreaking Resource Wars , world security expert Michael Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-cold-war world. Now, in Blood and Oil , he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States--its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer.

Since September 11 and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010 the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones--the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa--our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement.

With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.