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March 12, 2022 | James Brooke |

Russia sanctions grow faster, larger than South Africa sanctions in 1980s

When I lived in Moscow, I worked for Bloomberg, banked at Citibank, used my Visa card at Ikea, lunched at McDonald’s and flew home on Aeroflot to New York. As of this week, all that is over. As more than...

June 8, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

Rebuilding America’s economy and foreign policy with ‘ally-shoring’

Last month, President Joe Biden came to Michigan to push America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles—or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China. In doing so, the...

May 24, 2021 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

America needs healthy supply chains with allies

President Joe Biden recently came to Michigan — pushing America to seize leadership in making electric vehicles or risk ceding economic leadership in autos and other fields to China.  He held out...

August 1, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Al Qaeda Is Back!

By all accounts, the attack was planned with care and executed with precision. At two notorious Iraqi prisons, Abu Ghraib and Taji, al-Qaeda combatants last week used mo...

September 4, 2012 |

Natural Gas for Cars

It’s the key to ending OPEC’s control over the U.S. transportation industry.

September 21, 2011 |

How to Weaken the Power of Foreign Oil

Our country has just gone through a sober national retrospective on the 9/11 attacks. Apart from the heartfelt honoring of those lost — on that day and since — what seemed most striki...

July 14, 2011 |

No Strings Attached: The Case for a Distributed Grid and a Low-Oil Future

Co-authored by Rachel Kleinfeld and Chelsea Sexton Energy policy affects every human activity, from the heating of food to the production of microchips. And because of this perv...

June 15, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Warfare, Lawfare & Jawfare

And one other form of combat to which attention must be paid.

June 4, 2009 |

What Obama’s Mideast Trip Says About The U.S.

Americans woke up this week to news that President Obama is now describing the U.S. as--if you take into account the number of Muslim Americans--"one of the largest Muslim countries in the world....

January 13, 2009 |

Why Energy Security Matters Despite Falling Oil Prices

Americans watched helplessly as oil reached an all-time high of over $145 a barrel in July 2008. The climb in prices was relentless: after oil broke $100 a barrel for the first time in January 2008, it seemed that each day of commodities trading brought it to a new high.

July 31, 2008 |

Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that will Recharge America

While biofuels offer a drop-in alternative to oil in the short run, the long-term energy security of this country requires us to leverage technological innovations to achieve greater efficiency....

May 20, 2008 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross FDD Policy Briefing

The High Cost of Oil Dependence

With the price of oil over $125 a barrel and U.S. gasoline prices hovering around $4 a gallon, our nation’s energy dependence has been a top news headline. Although the economic effect of t...

December 30, 2006 | Wall Street Journal

Gentlemen, Start Your Plug-Ins

An oil and security task force of the Council on Foreign Relations recently opined that "[t]he voices that espouse 'energy independence' are doing the nation a disservice by focusing on...