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The strategic petroleum reserve : U.S. energy security and oil politics, 1975-2005 / Bruce A. Beaubouef.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beaubouef, Bruce Andre.
- Series:
- Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 21.
- Kenneth E. Montague series in oil and business history ; no. 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum reserves--United States.
- Petroleum reserves.
- Energy policy--United States.
- Energy policy.
- Gasoline--Prices--United States.
- Gasoline.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Author and historian Bruce A. Beaubouef examines, for the first time, the interactions that have shaped the development of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). In a time of continued vulnerability, this definitive work will be of interest to those concerned with the history, economy, and politics of the oil and gas industry, as well as to historians and practitioners of oil and energy policy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the SPR and the American political economy
- The energy crisis begins, 1970-75
- Building the reserve, 1976-79
- The energy crisis returns, 1978-80
- Maturation and ascension, 1980-86
- Drawdown for war, 1990-91
- Smoothing price cycles, 1996-2000
- Conclusions: the SPR and U.S. petroleum reserves policy
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-321) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05383-1
- 1-60344-464-5
- OCLC:
- 652326552
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