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Tag Archives: energy
Changing energy markets and U.S. National Security. House hearing 2011
House 112-89. December 16, 2011. Changing energy markets and U.S. National Security. House of Representatives Hearing. 69 pages. Excerpts follow: Edward R. Royce, California. Energy has become a national security issue in the United States. And one of the realities … Continue reading
Posted in U.S. Congress Energy Policy
Tagged dependence, energy, oil, policy, security
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$150 oil: Instability, terrorism and economic disruption. U.S. Senate hearing 2009
Senate 111-105. July 16, 2009. $150 oil: Instability, terrorism and economic disruption. U.S. Senate hearing. 42 pages. Excerpts: Senator Richard G. Lugar, Indiana. Energy security is a critical factor affecting nearly all of today’s foreign policy challenges. The American public … Continue reading
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Drought affects Survival in many ways
Christian Parenti calls multiple crises “The Catastrophic Convergence” in “Tropic of Chaos, Climate change and the new geography of Violence”. The problem isn’t that calamities happen simultaneously, it’s that they compound and amplify one another. Obviously drought reduces agricultural production. … Continue reading
China’s growing energy use and effect on U.S. jobs and prices
[ China’s huge appetite for energy creates a risk of war over the remaining oil resources. But we are unlikely to take them on directly in the South Sea because they are so much better prepared to launch a cyberattack … Continue reading
Posted in China and War, Congressional Record U.S.
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