Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)

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 worlds 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 regions soil. Klare traces oils impact on international affairs since World War II revealing its influence on the Truman Eisenhower Nixon and Carter doctrines. He shows how Americas 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.