Full Title: Rethinking a Key U.S. Strategic Interest: Energy Stability, Energy Independence, and the United States as a Net Exporter
Author(s): Anthony H. Cordesman
Publisher(s): Center for Strategic & International Studies
Publication Date: January 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
Ever since the oil embargo following the October 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict, the United States has tended to measure its strategic interests in energy in terms of its dependence on direct imports of oil and gas. The new Annual Energy Outlook of the U.S. Energy Information Administration was issued on January 5, 2017. Taken at face value, it reports that United States has reversed its past dependence on energy imports in spite of massive cut in world oil prices.