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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/9/2023
Oil and Spills Have Always Gone Hand in Hand
by Nolan Varee
Transporting a toxic substances quickly over long distances to market will inevitably produce spills. Though the technology of oil transport has changed, this essential fact remains unchanged, and will as long as regulation treats the risk as an acceptable part of the business.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/5/2022
Why King Oil Rules American Politics
by Meg Jacobs
Politicians have repeatedly faced imperiled election prospects because of high gas prices, yet remain unwilling to take serious steps to unwind the oil dependency built into the American environment.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
4/13/2022
How the Resurgent Oil Industry is Driving the Politics and Reaping the Profits of Gas Prices
by Gregory Brew
Unlike past moments of high prices, American consumers and businesses today are facing no pressure to lower their consumption of oil and gas, even as the climate crisis grows increasingly dire.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/12/2021
Congress May Have To Act To Punish Saudi Arabia
by David M. Wight
Political pressures have made US presidents less disposed than Congress to impose limits on the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia. If arms sales are to be a lever for change in the kingdom, it will probably be up to Congress to make it happen.
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8/2/2020
30 Years Later: Saddam Hussein's Fateful Decision to Invade Kuwait
by Guy Laron
It was clear from the outset that this was a desperate gamble that put Iraq on a collision course with Washington. But Saddam believed he had no other choice but to stop Kuwait from dumping oil into a slack market.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
4/19/2020
Ten Years After Deepwater Horizon, U.S. Is Still Vulnerable to Catastrophic Spills
Members of the bipartisan commission created to investigate the spill say Congress and the Trump administration have failed to take safety seriously.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
11/10/19
The Greatest Scam in History
by Naomi Oreskes
Scientists working on the issue have often told me that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn’t happened. Why?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/27/19
How war forced the United States to rethink the politics of oil
by Chris Dietrich
A historian explains how President Trump’s approach to oil is a relic of a previous era that isn’t likely to work.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
09/23/2019
Attacks on Saudi oil – why didn’t prices go crazy?
by Scott L. Montgomery
The United States' role in the dramatic shifting of the global oil market over the past decade plays a significant role.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
6-23-16
U.S., Britain Developed Plans to Disable or Destroy Middle Eastern Oil Facilities
British Plans Envisioned Using Nuclear Weapons as an Option in Iran and Iraq, According to Declassified Documents
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1-28-15
Are crude conspiracies right? Research shows nations really do go to war over oil
Countries producing lots of oil or those with higher reserves (and considerable market power) were more likely to attract military support.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
10-13-14
Top 5 Ways Lower oil Prices Could Change the World
by Juan Cole
If oil goes lower and stays there for a while, what are the implications?
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
10-9-14
Obama’s New Oil Wars
by Michael T. Klare
Washington Takes on ISIS, Iran, and Russia
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SOURCE: Informed Comment (blog)
6-24-14
Radicalism in Iraq Menaces the World's most Important Oil Fields
by Juan Cole
The Kirkuk fields in the north produce only about 670,000 barrels a day.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10-31-13
Mexico's Theology of Oil
by Enrique Krauze
Nationalization of oil in Mexico is an existential question.