Michael T. Klare: Time to Kill the Oil Beast

America’s overreliance on petroleum is the source of all its energy problems.

If the recent Presidential campaign demonstrated anything, it was that Americans want and expect the next president to make dramatic changes in U.S. energy policy. Americans want to see a substantial reduction in their country’s reliance on imported oil


All summer and fall, the two candidates spoke time and again about energy as a transcendent issue, one that affected national security as well as economic affairs and that would demand special attention from the next president. As a result of such rhetoric, voters will expect substantial progress