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TitleOilcraftTypeTextMonographClassificationLCC: HD9576.P52 V58 2020 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)DDC: 338.2/7240953 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23) Supplementary Contentbibliography index Summary"With this book, Bob Vitalis tackles the geopolitical "truths" about oil: that US presence in the Gulf and our relationship with Saudi Arabia is necessary to stabilize an otherwise volatile market; that US oil independence is necessary to prevent foreign powers from controlling and limiting global supply; that only displays of force and threat of military action keep price inflation in check. As these axioms are repeated across policy and scholarly debates, sheer repetition is taken as evidence of fact. Vitalis explicates what work these false beliefs about oil and geopolitics do today in US policy and scholarship. We can either continue to remain fixed on the state's wholly unnecessary defense of access, or we can extricate ourselves from it and concentrate instead on oilcraft's all too real effects"-- Provided by publisher.Table Of ContentsOpening
Raw materialism
1973, a time to confuse
No deal
Breaking the spell.
Authorized Access PointVitalis, Robert, 1955- Oilcraft