TITLE

PUMP DREAMS

AUTHOR(S)
Cassidy, John
PUB. DATE
October 2004
SOURCE
New Yorker;10/11/2004, Vol. 80 Issue 30, p42
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the issues confronting the U.S. with the growing imbalance between oil supply and demand. Average oil consumption of the country per day; Effects of the contradictory position of the Bush administration and Congress over the proposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Implications of the Iraq war for the American oil-dependency dilemma.
ACCESSION #
14951808

Tags: ENERGY consumption;  PETROLEUM reserves -- United States;  PETROLEUM industry -- United States;  PETROLEUM industry

 

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