{"id":20509,"date":"2016-05-07T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T01:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20509"},"modified":"2016-05-07T20:42:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T01:42:20","slug":"achieving-u-s-energy-independence-with-our-neighbors-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20509","title":{"rendered":"Achieving U.S. energy independence with our \u201cneighbors\u201d oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to Achieving U.S. energy independence with our \u201cneighbors\u201d oil\" href=\"http:\/\/energyskeptic.com\/2016\/achieving-u-s-energy-independence-with-our-neighbors-oil\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Achieving U.S. energy independence with our \u201cneighbors\u201d oil<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><em>[ The main U.S. interest becoming more energy independent by getting oil from our \u201cneighbors\u201d Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Canada, while at the same time minimizing growing Chinese and Russian attempts to get their oil and other natural resources.<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Alice Friedemann\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyskeptic.com\/\"><em>www.energyskeptic.com<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0\u00a0author of \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/us\/book\/9783319263731\"><em>When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation<\/em><\/a><em>, 2015, Springer]<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>House 114\u201312. February 3, 2015. The strategic importance of the western hemisphere defining U.S. interests in the region. 114thcongress House of Representatives. 81 pages\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><u>Jeff Duncan, South Carolina\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Venezuela\u2019s unstable situation, deteriorating economic conditions with major shortages and inflation at over 60 percent,\u00a0<strong>declining oil production<\/strong>\u00a0and human rights abuses also require sustained U.S. attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Energy opportunities abound in the region today. I am excited about the potential for U.S. energy exports from our neighbors in the hemisphere<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>I believe we can do so much more on the energy front. The Western Hemisphere is home to nearly a third of the world\u2019s oil and the region has nearly 337 billion barrels of estimated recovery in oil, and 20 percent of the world\u2019s proven oil reserves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The abundance of U.S. reserves in oil and natural gas and shale gas resources, the capability to export, liquefy and compress natural gas and the administration\u2019s recent announcement of offshore drilling in the Atlantic, the U.S. has many reasons to partner with like-minded countries who seek to spur economic growth, achieve energy security, and reduce energy cost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the 113th Congress, I authored legislation to implement the Outer Continental Shelf Trans Boundary Hydrocarbon Agreement between Mexico and the United States<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venezuela\u2019s dire situation, resulting impact on its Petrocaribe program, has caused 18 Central American and Caribbean nations that receive its oil on preferential terms to look elsewhere for energy security. The U.S. is a natural partner for these policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achieving U.S. energy independence with our \u201cneighbors\u201d oil [ The main U.S. interest becoming more energy independent by getting oil from our \u201cneighbors\u201d Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Canada, while at the same time minimizing growing Chinese and Russian attempts to get their oil and other natural resources. Alice Friedemann\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0www.energyskeptic.com\u00a0\u00a0author of \u201cWhen Trucks Stop Running: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11836,12246,13761],"class_list":["post-20509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-energyskeptic","tag-us-energy-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20510,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions\/20510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}