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...world oil prices and fundamentally changed the outlook for energy supplies. In effect, the 1973-74 Arab reduction in oil output and embargo transformed Middle East oil from a low-cost, secure supply to a high-cost, insecure source. That event meant that the United States needed to adopt an energy policy that would recognize the increasingly higher value and cost of energy supplies...
Unfortunately, the U.S. has yet to adopt a policy that is appropriate to that challenge. However, it is not surprising that it has taken so long to make relatively little progress in the energy area because of the vast sums of money involved, the varying perceptions of the Another major complicating factor is that different regions of the nation are fighting one another over the money involved...