October 31, 2006

National security consequences of U.S. oil dependency

National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency, a report by the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Energy, directed by David Victor, director of FSI's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD), concludes that the "lack of sustained attention to energy issues is undercutting U.S. foreign policy and U.S. national security." The report goes on to examine how America's dependence on imported oil - which currently comprises 60 percent of consumption - increasingly puts it into competition with other energy importers, notably the rapidly growing economies of China and India.

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