Summary: In the context of $100 oil, Sovereign Wealth Funds owned by petrostates
have potential to upset the West's economic and political sovereignty.
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+New book by Set America Free Coalition's Robert Zubrin
Summary: You hear it all the time: We've got to reduce our dependence on foreign oil; it's a matter of homeland security. Fine. Nobody's arguing. But the solutions that get offered -- drilling in ANWR, mandating better automobile fuel efficiency, pushing ethanol -- don't really solve anything. They're politically impossible, or too expensive, or contrary to free-market forces. They're losers. Energy-independence advocate Gal Luft looks for winners. What separates him from other energy specialists are his pragmatic solutions. He doesn't peddle pie-in-the-sky political strategies. He's a realist. He has a single goal: freeing America from the grip of foreign oil. And he wants to do it now. He offers four ways to solve the energy crisis which also happen to be four reasons why Gal Luft is the most hated man in Riyadh, Detroit, and Des Moines.
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Summary: Did you know that less than 3% of U.S. electricity is generated from oil and that transportation accounts for most
of U.S. oil consumption?
Click more to look at a piechart.
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Summary: Click more to look at the growing oil gap illustrated by this chart: on the one hand the U.S. has just 3% of world oil reserves (including ANWR), and on the other, efficiency is not a panacea
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