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...little difference in prices. World demand for crude is flat, they argue, and OPEC, which controls only 37% of the market, in contrast to 56% in 1973, may find it difficult to push prices much higher. "If the war ends, the geopolitics of oil are changed greatly," says Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Cambridge, Mass. "But the price may not be changed nearly as much." The possibility of peace in the Persian Gulf seems to have left the petroleum community as bewildered as the rest of the world...
...taste for imported energy without driving up prices. Excess capacity totals some 12 million bbl. a day, about 75% of which can be found in the Middle East. But the glut may vanish within five years, as growth in non- Communist economies soaks up the surplus. Says Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm: "We expect the world oil market to look radically different in the early 1990s...
...Yale Divinity school and graduated from Yale Law School, ignoring his B.A from Bethany College. In the acknowledgements, Hart cites several prominent academicians, including former Yale President Dr. Kingman Brewster, former Carter inflation fighter Alfred J. Kahn. MIT's Robert Solow, and Kennedy School hotshots Robert Reich and Daniel Yergin Throughout the text, the senator shows a wide ranging familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, citing among others Winston Churchill, Leo Iolstoy, Jose Ortegay Gasset, Theodore Roszak, H.G. Wells and Cicero...
GLOBAL INSECURITY is supposed to be a wake-up alarm for the American people. However, with that alarm, the audience wants the news. In other words, Yergin and his co-authors have detailed the potential danger. Now, we want to know what we can do about it. They lay out a program, but it is not as comprehensive or cogent as their documentation of the problem. Yergin points to three main objectives: diversification of oil supplies, substitution by other energy sources, and energy conservation. The third goal is the basis for the book--what consumers and businesses with some government...
...Daniel Yergin and his co-authors though, have issued a clear warning to the U.S. and the world to work out a coherent energy policy before time runs out. Global Security is an important book which conveys the immediacy of an energy problem pushed to the back-burner by the current administration that believes "the only energy crisis is the existence of the Department of Energy...