“In the spirit of Apollo, with the determination of the Manhattan Project”:...
When Arab oil exporters imposed their embargo on the U.S. and the Netherlands in October 1973, George Schultz noted that the United Kingdom and France faced hardly any problem accessing crude oil...
View ArticlePoliticized implementation of U.S. oil import quotas, 1959-1973
The oil import quota system in place from 1959 to 1973 restricted imports to an amount equal to the difference between the federal government’s estimate of domestic oil demand and the estimate of...
View ArticleOn Trump’s energy policy: Big players are bad news for energy policy
My commentary, “Trump’s policy may undermine pro-growth intentions,” appears in the October 2016 issue of Nature Energy. Here is one of my favorite parts: Trump’s emphasis on energy independence, in...
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