Emergency Preparedness for Interruption of Petroleum Imports Into the United States, April 1981
Author: National Petroleum Council. Committee on Emergency Preparedness
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 530
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Petroleum Council. Committee on Emergency Preparedness
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 530
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Petroleum Council. Committee on Emergency Preparedness
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 55
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 788
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 846
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Petroleum Council
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of Energy
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of Energy
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Published: 1982-08
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bruce Andre Beaubouef
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1603444645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1973, the United States and other western countries were shocked by the Arab oil embargo. Lines formed at gasoline pumps; fuel stations ran out of supply; prices skyrocketed; and the nation realized its vulnerability to decisions made by leaders of countries half a world away. In response, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which was signed into law by President Gerald Ford in 1975, has become the nation?s primary tool of energy policy. Following its first major use during the Persian Gulf War of 1991, officials and policy makers at the highest levels increasingly turned to the SPR to stave off shortages and mitigate rising energy prices. Author and historian Bruce A. Beaubouef examines, for the first time, the interactions that have shaped the development of the SPR. He argues that the SPR has survived because it is a passive regulatory tool that serves to protect energy consumers and petroleum consumption and does not compete with the American oil industry. Indeed, by the late twentieth century, as American import dependency reached new heights, refiners and transporters increasingly relied upon the SPR as a ready resource to help maintain feedstock when supplies were tight or disrupted. In a time of continued vulnerability, this definitive work will be of interest to those concerned with the history, economy, and politics of the oil and gas industry, as well as to historians and practitioners of oil and energy policy.