TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vitalis,Robert
TI  - Oilcraft: the myths of scarcity and security that haunt U.S. energy policy 
SN  - 1503600904
AV  - HD9576 .P52 V58 2020
U1  - 338.2/7240953 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Energy policy
KW  - United States
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Persian Gulf Region
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Strategic aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Opening -- Raw materialism -- 1973, a time to confuse -- No deal -- Breaking the spell
N2  - "With this book, Bob Vitalis tackles the geopolitical "truths" about oil: that US presence in the Gulf and our relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market; that US oil independence is necessary to prevent foreign powers from controlling and limiting global supply; that only displays of force and threat of military action keep price inflation in check. As these axioms are repeated across policy and scholarly debates, sheer repetition is taken as evidence of fact. Vitalis explicates what work these false beliefs about oil and geopolitics do today in US policy and scholarship. We can either continue to remain fixed on the state's wholly unnecessary defense of access, or we can extricate ourselves from it and concentrate instead on oilcraft's all too real effects"--
ER  -