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First, let’s start with demand. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), the United States imports 8.9 million barrels of crude petroleum a day and produces 5.8 million (all statistics used in this article are from the DOE, some from its Energy Information Administration). If you price those supplies at the moderate and currently prevalent price of $25 per barrel, you arrive at a daily crude oil expenditure by U.S. firms and the government of $222.5 million, which is $81 billion annualized. We spend $81 billion a year buying crude oil on the world markets, primarily...
...British-born Hugh Harris, a second year Kennedy School student voiced his disapproval. “I know what they were trying to do, but I don’t think it worked” he declared. “I thought the whole question and answer session was crude to the point of underestimating the intellect of its target audience. Trent Thompson, a first year student in the Masters of Public Policy program was less vehement in his assessment. “I felt like the whole point was to teach America about terrorism and on that point...
...Crude biological agents have been used in war for centuries. But today’s fears are of the deliberate creation of a virulent plague. Iraq, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Libya, Syria and Sudan are all known to have biological weapons programs. The U.S. and the Russia have both worked on the development of anthrax, a bacterium that is spread among livestock and that poses significant dangers to humans. Terrorists could even reverse one of humanity’s greatest achievements by reintroducing smallpox, which has been eradicated by a sustained global health effort and which is no longer treated...
Indeed, the most devastating nonmilitary chemical attack ever, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, killed only a dozen people. One reason is that the delivery method was crude: cultists dropped plastic bags of sarin (smuggled in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers) on a subway platform and pierced them with umbrella tips. Also the amounts were relatively small. Says Smithson: "Any bozo can make a chemical agent in a beaker, but producing tons and tons is difficult." Aum Shinrikyo tried to make the stuff in bulk, recruiting scientists and spending at least $10 million, but it failed...
...Indeed, the most devastating nonmilitary chemical attack ever, by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in Tokyo in 1995, killed only a dozen people. One reason is that the delivery method was crude: cultists dropped plastic bags of sarin (smuggled in lunch boxes and soft-drink containers) on a subway platform and pierced them with umbrella tips. Also the amounts were relatively small. Says Smithson: "Any bozo can make a chemical agent in a beaker, but producing tons and tons is difficult." Aum Shinrikyo tried to make the stuff in bulk, recruiting scientists and spending at least $10 million, but it failed...