04088nam 22006371 450 991034511860332120081015070520.00-7556-2026-71-282-52779-797866125277910-85771-003-6600-00-0818-X1-4237-0944-69781850436744(CKB)1000000000243137(EBL)677021(OCoLC)721194015(SSID)ssj0000097192(PQKBManifestationID)11114162(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000097192(PQKBWorkID)10114328(PQKB)11097964(MiAaPQ)EBC677021(OCoLC)1125862151(UtOrBLW)bpp09265105(EXLCZ)99100000000024313720200603d2005 fy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrAddicted to oil America's relentless drive for energy security /Ian RutledgeLondon ;New York :I.B. Tauris,2005.New York :Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan in the United States and Canada,2005.1 online resource (284 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84511-319-5 1-85043-674-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Names and Terminology; Preface; Chapter 1: Oil and America; Chapter 2: The Die is Cast; Chapter 3: How America Got Control of the Gulf; Chapter 4: Energy Security and the Gulf; Chapter 5: The Axis of Oil; Chapter 6: Energy Security Begins at Home; Chapter 7: Canada, Venezuela and Mexico; Chapter 8: The Caspian and Central Asia; Chapter 9: America the Motorised; Chapter 10: The Looming Crisis; Chapter 11: Oil and Islamism; Chapter 12: A War for Oil; Notes; Bibliography; Index"It has long been acknowledged that in America the car is king. However, America's car-orientated and car-dependent lifestyle goes beyond the culture of fast cars and freeways. In Addicted to Oil, Ian Rutledge explores the political, economic and social ramifications of the motorisation of the US economy. He argues that America's dependence on the car has created a lifestyle leading to oil needs which have heavily influenced US foreign policy in the modern era. Rutledge traces the origins of America's addiction throughout the twentieth century and explains how America's relations with the Middle East were developed through its quest for energy security. America's motorisation and its consequent demand for oil at predictable market prices was and continues to be an important influence on US policy towards Iraq - especially given the uncertainties relating to what has so far been the securest source of Middle East oil - Saudi Arabia. Ian Rutledge argues that the war in Iraq was neither a war for 'freedom' or 'democracy' nor was it a plot to 'steal Iraq's oil', but rather an attempt to establish a pliant and dependable oil protectorate in the Middle East which would underwrite the soaring demand from America's hyper-motorised consumers. Addicted to Oil is the first book to undertake an in-depth analysis of the motorisation of US society which explicitly links it to America's foreign policy adventures, past and present. Addicted to Oil is essential reading for an understanding of America's international political priorities and its fraught relations with the Middle East."--Bloomsbury publishing.Petroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyUnited StatesPetroleum reservesIraqEconomic geologyBICPetroleum industry and tradeGovernment policyPetroleum reservesEconomic geology.338.2/7282/0973Rutledge Ian173147UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910345118603321Addicted to oil2251625UNINA