The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century - Softcover
Challenging the conventional wisdom surrounding high oil prices, this compelling argument sheds an entirely new light on free-market industry fundamentals. By deciphering past, present, and future geopolitical events, it makes the case that oil pricing and availability have a long history of being employed as economic weapons by the United States. Despite ample world supplies and reserves, high prices are now being used to try to rein in China a reverse of the low-price strategy used in the 1980s to deprive the Soviets of hard currency. Far from conspiracy theory, the debate notes how the U.S. has previously used the oil majors, the Saudis, and market intervention to move market sand shows how this is happening again. This compact and unorthodox analysis will appeal to a broad audience from energy consumers puzzled by intractably high oil prices to producers wondering how long windfall prices can defy gravity.
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About the Author:
James R. Norman is a veteran business journalist and energy reporter. He is currently a contributing writer for McGraw-Hill's Platts Oilgram News. He has also written for Forbes, BusinessWeek, and the Ann Arbor News, where he won an award for investigative reporting on an oil and gas scam. He lives in New York City.
Review:
"James R. Norman says in The Oil Card that the price you pay at the pump is not determined by the free market." —theepochtimes
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1458752798
- ISBN 13 9781458752796
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages424
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