Ex-CIA Head: Alternative Fuels Needed

Although the scenario was fake — acted out by former CIA Director R. James Woolsey as the president (his cabinet was portrayed by Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University students and alumni) — it is plausible today and so are the consequences, Woolsey cautioned.

“A cutoff of oil, even a brief one, sends huge shocks through our economy and the overall international trade system,” Woolsey said in his keynote address at the PowerShift energy security conference Saturday at WMU’s Fetzer Center.
Kalamazoo Gazette