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Gavin Longmuir
Gavin Longmuir is a petroleum engineer affiliated with International Petroleum Consultants Association.
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The Perilous Fantasy of Energy Independence
A. F. Alhajji and Gavin Longmuir Series: The World in Words 2007-02-22The paradox of today’s quest for energy independence is that pursuing it actually increases energy insecurity. However much politicians who call for energy independence might prefer it otherwise, the market has chosen oil as a staple energy source. So governments should ignore neither the valid interests of oil exporters, on whom consumers in their countries depend, nor exporters’ reaction to the rhetoric of energy independence or to steps taken to achieve it. Isolationist politicians may not care about other countries, but they should think twice lest they harm their own. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 21236
