“As the voracious demand for oil increasingly outstripped new sources of supply in recent years, an energy crisis crept up on the world with fateful inevitability,” so commented Time magazine on November 19, 1973 some 35 years ago when Arab nations tried to squeeze concessions out of Israel and its Western supporters in response to what has come to be known as the Yom Kippur war. It seems like a case of back-to-the-future seeing that it is now October 2008: growing global demand for diminishing ...
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As Europe’s industrial powerhouse, structural changes to the country's energy and power sectors have staggering implications both for its economy and for the security of its own energy supply. Is Germany sacrificing its national security to climate change and environmental concerns? The anti-nuclear lobby has morphed into the anti-coal lobby and, if successful, Germany's dependence on imported Russian hydrocarbons will only deepen.
If the radical Islamic regime in Tehran acquires a nuclear weapons arsenal, it entirely changes the balance of power across the region. But Europe and Asia are hungry for Iranian oil and gas. What are the energy implications of an empowered, and likely assertive, Iran and what are the scenarios that policy makers need to consider?
In 2007 China surpassed Japan as the world’s second largest importer of oil behind Japan. Yet it is not sitting idly by content with increasing oil imports. According to U.S. Methanol Institute President & CEO John Lynn, “China is showing the rest of the world how clean transportation fuels can be made from coal.” Methanol is now a strategic transportation fuel in China and the rest of the world should take note.
Kevin Rosner writes that Russia’s invasion of Georgia meant to shake the foundations of the Saakashvili government, expand Russian influence inside this strategic Caucasus state and to reassert its dominance in a neighborhood it considers its own. The act marks the end of the post Cold War era and thrusts the world into unchartered territory with Europe’s energy security in the balance.
The Plan: How to Save America the Day After the Oil Stops--or Perhaps the Day Before
by Edwin Black
Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics
by Francis Fukuyama
Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
by Robert Zubrin
Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction
by David Sandalow
Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America
by Sherry Boschert
Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy
by George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert, G. K. Surya Prakash
