Word: yergin
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...energy question is really a question about economic growth and security, which in turn means it is a question about the future of Western society...The stakes are high enough, the uncertainties great enough, the effects persuasive enough that it would be foolish to close our eyes...." Daniel Yergin...
...EVER SAID there was a consensus in the U.S. on the subject of energy. Daniel Yergin, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, and co-editor with Martin Hillenbrand of Global Insecurity, thinks there should...
...Yergin, who three years ago co-authored Energy Future: The report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School, argues in his essays on energy and the U.S. that without proper precautions America over the next 20 years could easily face a major energy crisis and in turn a lethal threat to its national security...
According to Yergin, interviewed in his K-School office, Americans find it very comforting to have a "1950s attitude of energy self-sufficiency" currently fashionable in Washington. But behind that sugar coating of "limitless domestic resources" is the bitter pill of the West's future energy vulnerability...
...study applauds the U.S. strategic oil stockpile, for example, but wishes that it were being filled faster. Said Yergin last week: "We are in a race between crisis and adjustment. There has unquestionably been a lot of adjustment of which we can be proud, but the potential crisis is still there...