Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780805079388
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 482,249
Series: American Empire Project Series
Product dimensions: 5.49 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.82 (d)

Meet the Author

Michael T. Klare is the author of fourteen books, including Resource Wars, Blood and Oil, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet and The Race for What's Left. A regular contributor to Harper's, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Times, he is the defense analyst for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst.

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Blood and Oil

The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum

By Michael T. Klare Owl Books (NY)

From Blood and Oil:
o In 1998, for the first time, more than half of the
United States' oil supply came from foreign
sources. Imports of foreign petroleum are
projected to rise to 60% in 2010, 65% in 2020,
and 70% by 2030.
o America's oil fields are experiencing irreversible
decline. Even if reserves in Alaska's wildlife
refuge are extracted, they will reduce U.S.
imports of foreign oil by only about 2% per year
for the next two decades-an almost negligible
change.
o To pay for all of this imported oil, American
businesses and consumers will have to cough up
an estimated $3.5 trillion between 2000 and 2025-
if oil remains within a moderate price range.
o Even more importantly, since most of the world's
remaining oil resources are located in deeply
unstable regions-over 65% in the Persian Gulf
alone-military involvement to ensure access is
inevitable.

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	Preface	xi
1	The Dependency Dilemma: Imported Oil and National Security	1
2	Lethal Embrace: The American Alliance with Saudi Arabia	26
3	Choosing Dependency: The Energy Strategy of the Bush Administration	56
4	Trapped in the Gulf: The Irresistible Lure of Bountiful Petroleum	74
5	No Safe Havens: Oil and Conflict Beyond the Persian Gulf	113
6	Geopolitics Reborn: The U.S.-Russian-Chinese Struggle in the Persian Gulf and Caspian Basin	146
7	Escaping the Dilemma: A Strategy for Energy Autonomy and Integrity	180
	Afterword: The Permanent Energy Crisis	203
	Notes	213
	Acknowledgments	261
	Index	263

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Posted February 9, 2009

Well Thought Out

As an energy security consultant, I had a unique interest in reading this book. Klare makes effectively lays out the history of U.S. energy security, the current status, and a projection of the future. While the book was published in 2005, some of his projections have been correct, while others have not.

The only problem I had with the book was the numerous attacks on the Bush Administration.

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Totally boring

Wow...that's all I have to say. You don't have to read this book...just remember that: 1) America and the world needs oil 2) The places that have oil don't have the ability or technology to produce it 3) Global war will ensue! This book was interesting for the first two chapters...then I realized that Klare was simply showing that even if you reiterate and reword the same idea for 240 or so pages, you can still get published!

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Useful study of oil politics

Resources, not differences in civilisations or identities, are behind most conflicts. Most important is oil, which drives armed forces, economies and international politics. The US state treats oil as a matter of national security. Petroleum supplies 41% of its energy, two-thirds of it for transport (petrol fuels 97% of its transport). Since 1998, it has depended on foreign sources for over half its oil. But Europe, Russia, Japan and China also depend on foreign supplies, sharpening rivalry. The Middle East has two-thirds of the worldfs proven oil reserves: 25% in Saudi Arabia, 12.6% in Iran, 10.7% in Iraq, 9.3% in UAE, 9.3% in Kuwait and 1.5% in Qatar. All these countries' governments are now pro-US, except Iran. Russia and the Caspian Sea have 7.4%, the North Sea only 1.6%, Venezuela 7.4% and Nigeria 2.3%. There is also oil in Colombia, Mexico, Angola, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. A US government report of 1941 urged, gmore and more aggressive foreign policy aimed at assuring access to petroleum overseas.h Earlier its cloak for aggression was eanti-communismf, now it is eanti-terrorismf. The US state wants all the countries that it dominates to increase their oil exports to the USA. The capitalist road leads to more wars, permanent US occupation of the Middle East and rising terrorism. Before the attack on Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, promised, gAmerican companies will have a big share of Iraqi oil.h US forces seized Iraq's oil fields, refineries and Oil Ministry. The US state is covertly allied to the Mujehadin-e Khalq, an anti-Iranian militia based in northern Iraq. There is an alternative. Klare urges his country to end security agreements for US access to oil, particularly with the despots ruling Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States; to end all US military intervention in the Gulf, close all its bases in the Middle East and the Caspian region. This would save American lives, cut military spending and reduce the threat of terrorism. He also urges America to reduce its dependence on imported oil: make all vehicles more fuel-efficient, and rebuild rail systems.
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Posted October 14, 2004

Don't Waste Your Money.

This book should come with a warning label: Blood and Oil is a waste of energy. Klare provides an edifying survey of the roots of US dependency on foreign petroleum. He covers the nature of the dilemma and our economic addiction to oil, and makes a convincing case for the need to change in the first two chapters. Just when I was primed for multiple chapters on how to escape this dilemma, he launches into a politically biased four-chapter page-filling tangent. Sadly it isn¿t until the last fourteen pages of the book that he gets to what I had hoped would be the meat of this book ¿ how to escape the dilemma of dependency. He begins by saying we need a ¿paradigm shift¿ ¿ well, DUH! And, then he offers a conflicted contradiction of trivial ideas that amount to: 1) Don¿t support repugnant dictatorships for oil, 2) Reducing our dependency on foreign oil ¿ again, DUH! ¿ using less SUVs and more hybrid/electric vehicles. And as a finale, 3) We must hasten our transition to a post-petroleum economy. This covers a whopping four; count `em, four pages and provides simplistic suggestions with few details of how to accomplish them. I got the book to discover this and it disappoints. It¿s insulting to spend hard-earned money to find out the book was an excuse to make a few bucks. Save your money. Walk over to the library and do your share to save the oil used to deliver it to your house.
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Posted September 30, 2004

Chilling Expose

Michael T. Klare, author of 'Resource Wars', provides a chilling and sobering expose of America's addiction to oil and the military-petroleum complex which that addiction has spawned. 'Blood and Oil' shows how the American military will find itself committed on a permanent warfare footing in the Persian Gulf and Caspian Basin petro-rich regions in the years ahead as the U.S., Russia and China contend for supremacy over the control of the life-blood of the global economy. Klare suggests common sense technological alternatives which can help the U.S. achieve an energy future of 'autonomy and integrity,' but fails to confront the radical political transformation which must take place in America before the military-petroleum complex can be stopped in its tracks. Highly recommended nonetheless.
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