The oil industry as we know it--- make up 95% of American’s resources and monetary means for trading and living. In 1901, the drilling of oil on Texas salt dome sparked the nation’s advancement that pulled in politics, social economics, and culture all together that for each category meant “power” in fact the oil had a great contribution in the advancement of the United States of America’s political and economic labor market. The Oil industry paved the way for many jobs in America and set the standard for many domestic and international buyers.…
Parts of where oil is imported from Islamic extremists are abundant = terriorist, petrodollar into terrorists pocket. Americans have the idea that foreign oil or energy is bad. Danger to economy, security, not patriotic. Assumptions . Political platforms, campaigning candidates all raised this issue in some fashion. Claims the idea of achieving energy independence to national security. Contradictory to economic, military, political, environmental – makes no sense. Interdependent, accept the reality of energy interdependence. He points out that the biggest oil producer also imports fossil fuels by not acknowledging the reality and trying to detour, it’s really adopting inefficient, counterproductive policies. Need to actively engage…
He goes on to explain that two thirds of the world's oil is in the Middle East, primarily Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. With their high volume of oil, the Middle East supplies large quantities of oil to other countries, as well as, America. For instance, China is second to the United States in their dependency on foreign oil, who imports half of their petroleum from the Middle East. As both countries continue to need more and more oil, America could eventually become a threat to China and possibly other countries who will also need more imported oil. The potential for future world crises could come from the need for oil. That is why there is an urgency to create other alternatives before the issue ripples into a massive world war. China has already taken steps to gear their country toward alternative means by setting fuel economy standards. America needs to follow suit and do the same and focus on the research needed to determine the best possible alternatives to foreign…
These roles and functions were before the United States and the United Kingdom had started producing their own shale oil and gas. Now that the US and the UK have found and are producing shale oil and gas, OPEC’s roles are bound to change. A gas and oil boom in the US and the United Kingdom has led to digital ink, (Barnes & Jaffe 2006). The UK and the USA are leading world consumers of petroleum products; they import many barrels of petroleum products from OPEC. This is bound to change because of existence and production of shale oil and gas by the US and the UK as Arvanitopoulos (2010) asserts.…
The global supply of energy is concentrated within the 12 OPEC countries. (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries). These countries hold a vast amount of the world’s oil and gas reserves with 81% of proven oil reserves and 49% of proven gas reserves. The aim of the organisation is to unify petroleum policies so that there is a steady supply of energy to consumers, and a steady income for themselves- the producer. OPEC sets production targets for its member nations and generally, when OPEC production targets are reduced, oil prices increase. This was clearly seen in the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo against the US and the West in response to the US’s involvement in the Yom Kippur war against Egypt. The OPEC countries prohibited trade with the USA, UK, Japan, Canada and the Netherlands. It caused the price of oil to rocket, and many countries went in to depression. This shows the importance of cooperation between OPEC member states, as their decisions can affect the price of energy. Furthermore, it emphasises the importance of countries such as the USA cooperating with oil producing countries such as the OPEC countries where energy has been used as a source of power.…
According to a poll conducted by American Pulse Research, Americans feel we are too dependent on foreign oil by a ratio of nine to one (Market Wire) The poll conducted in June of 2008 indicated that 90.7% of Americans felt the United states was too dependent on foreign oil and 67.1% felt that the United States should begin drilling for oil in its reserves to limit our dependency on foreign oil. (Market Wire). According to the Energy Information Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Energy, The United States imported 58% of it’s oil demand from foreign countries in 2007 (Energy Information Administration ). The five nations from which we imported the most oil and the percentage of the total amount imported were as follows: Canada, (18.2%), Mexico (11.4%), Saudi Arabia (11.0%), Venezuela (10.1%) and Nigeria (8.4%) (Energy Information Administration). In his Washington Times Article dated July, 26 2008, William Rusher states that “Shaking off our dependence on oil will involve huge technological change (Rusher).” He further states that “It may well take a war, or some other disaster that interrupts foreign oil supplies, to force the leading nations of the West to get serious about replacing precarious sources of oil (Rusher).”…
In 1938, a team of American geologists struck oil outside the village of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, touching off a chain of events that would propel the backwards desert kingdom into the modern age and change the course of world history. In 1992, the American-based Occidental Petroleum won permission from the Colombian government to search for oil on land belonging to the native U’wa people, touching off a chain of events that would lead to decades of strife. These two events, separated by over five decades, represent a kind of yin and yang of globalization, extreme…
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2. How has oil contributed to world events and conflicts since 1973? What historical lessons should Western governments remember in dealing with oil-rich countries like Venezuela, Saudi Arabia,…
The United States hopes for prosperity and energy security. The oil produced in the world today 25% is consumed by the United States, which only holds less than 3% of the world’s proven oil reserves (Biencke and Gerard, 2010). The United States is in need in creating a clean energy future and increasing the efficiency of energy and support policies that will initiate innovation in the clean-technology sector (Biencke and Gerard, 2010). The United States has to hinder our dependency on oil, and there has to be more innovations on wind and solar power technology (Biencke and Gerard, 2010). Biencke, F., and Gerard, J.M. (2010). Should the U.S. Halt Offshore Drilling [University of Phoenix Custom Edition eBook].…
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In Mr. Siemiesz’s chapter he explained about the National Security Consequences of U.S Oil Dependence and how it could be fixed and changed for the best interest of the country; Mr. Siemiesz outlined specific points or steps the country could take to make those changes he outlined in the chapter. “Those major energy suppliers from Russia to Iraq to Venezuela have been increasingly able and willing to use their resources to pressure their strategic and political objectives. That these country’s are consuming less oil less then all of the other countries especially the United States. The Fact is that the U.S. makes up to 4.6% of the world’s population but uses 25% of the world’s oil. So the challenge of this is over the next several years the U.S. needs to slow down and stop consuming a lot of Oil and hopefully find new ways to find energy”.…
The United States and Saudi Arabia have had a relationship for more than 80 years. This relationship has been established since the discovery of oil in the Islamic nation of Saudi Arabia in year 1931, which make Saudi Arabia became the main exporter of oil to the United States. Oil has become the main reason that makes these two nations become allies until today. Even though United States and Saudi Arabia have different background—religious, political, and economy—both of these nations have their own benefit from this cooperation because United States want an easy access to Saudi Arabia’s oil at a cheaper price while Saudi Arabia wants protection to their country from any harm.…
Watson, K. (2012, December 12). Winning the case for women in work: Saudi Arabia’s steps to reform. BBC News. Retrieved from…
As early as 1930s, the American and Western oil companies mainly, Chevron (initially called Standard Oil Company of California), had set up shop in Saudi Arabia oil fields. For nearly three decades, from 1930s to the 1960s, a loose international structure regulated the international oil industry. Oil exploration, expansion, refining and marketing was done by seven integrated oil companies referred to as ‘seven…