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Energy Security Resources
Hot Topics in Energy Security
1) Contango and the Price of Oil: Listen to this piece from NPR’s All Things Considered to learn why the rising future price of oil is impacting the price of oil in the present.
2) World Energy Hotspots: Learn more about the political stability of regions with large oil and natural gas reserves from this table from the Energy Information Administration.
3) Hybrid Cars:Cut through the confusion surrounding the pros and cons of hybrid cars.
4) Ethanol: Examine the scientific claims behind the ethanol debate in this article from the Wall Street Journal.
Books
Beyond Oil and Gas: The Menthanol Economy
by George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert, G. K. Surya Prakash
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
by Michael T. Klare
The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle
By Michael
Shnayerson
Energy Power Shift: Benefiting from Today’s New Technologies
by Michael Shnayerson
The End of Oil : On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts
The Hype About Hydrogen
by Joseph J. Romm
Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
by Michael T. Klare
Twilight in the Desert
By Matthew R. Simmons
Reports and Fact Sheets
America, Oil and National Security (pdf)
National Environmental Trust, 2002
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Efficiency Saves More Oil than the Refuge Would Yield
Natural Resources Defense Council, 2005
Clean Fuels: An Overview (pdf)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Mobile Sources
Closing CAFE Standard Loopholes (pdf)
Alliance to Save Energy, 2005
Country Analysis Brief: The United States
U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2005
Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Research Council, 2002
Energy Security in the 21st Century (pdf)
National Security Task Force on Energy, 2006
Hurricane Impacts on the U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Markets
U.S. Energy Information Administration, December 2005
Oil and the Economy
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Speech as a part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at Darton College (GA), 2004
Oil: More Costly than you Think
Lauren Poole, EcoIQ Magazine, Spring 2000.
Reducing America’s Energy Dependence
Natural Resources Defense Council, Updated July 2004
Renewing America’s Economy
Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2005.
Securing America’s Energy Future (pdf)
(Republican) Majority Staff Report to the Committee on Government Reform, May 2006
Trends in Oil Supply and Demand, Potential for Peaking of Conventional Oil Production, and Possible Mitigation Options
James Zucchetto (editor), National Research Council, 2006
Unlocking the Promise of Ethanol (pdf)
Natural Resource Defense Council, February 2006
U.S. Energy Security – A New Realism
Senator R. Lugar (R-IN), speech to the Brookings Institution, March 13, 2006.
U.S. Trade Deficit and the Impact of Rising Oil Prices (pdf)
James Jackson, CRS Report for Congress, Updated June 6, 2006.
Scholarly Articles
Alfred Cavallo, “Oil: The Illusion of Plenty,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2004.
Alexander Farrell et al., “Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals,” Science, January 27, 2006. pdf
Daniel Yergin, “Ensuring Energy Security,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006, 69 – 82.
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