Imported oil and U.S. national security

✍ Scribed by Keith Crane, Michael Toman, Stuart E. Johnson, Andreas Goldthau, Thomas Light

• Publisher: RAND Infrastructure, Safety and Environment :, RAND National Security Research Division
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 127
• Series: RAND Corporation monograph series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 2007, the United States imported 58 percent of the oil it consumed. This book critically evaluates commonly suggested links between these imports and U.S. national security and assesses the economic, political, and military costs and benefits of potential policies to alleviate imported oil-related challenges to U.S. national security.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright Page
......Page 3
The RAND Environment, Energy, and Economic Development Program......Page 4
International Security and Defense Policy Center......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
Linkages Between Imported Oil and U.S. National Security......Page 14
Policies to Mitigate Threats and Costs to U.S. National Security from Imported Oil......Page 16
Effective Energy Policies and U.S. National Security......Page 19
Acknowledgments......Page 21
Abbreviations......Page 22
Purpose......Page 27
The Monograph......Page 28
The Role of Oil in the U.S. Economy......Page 31
Global Production and Reserves......Page 35
Prices......Page 38
Oil-Market Disruptions and U.S. National Security......Page 43
The Resilience of the Supply Chain......Page 48
U.S. Terms of Trade, Oil Prices, and National Security......Page 49
Oil Embargoes and Cutoffs......Page 51
Oil Export Subsidies......Page 61
Securing Oil Supplies......Page 63
Conclusions......Page 67
Oil Revenues and Rogue States......Page 69
Oil and Terrorism Finance......Page 80
Conclusions......Page 83
Introduction......Page 85
Key Issues......Page 86
Recent Estimates of the Costs of Protecting the Supply and Transit of Oil......Page 89
Costing Forces Speci c to Ensuring Security of Supply for Oil......Page 91
Incremental Forces to Secure Oil from the Persian Gulf......Page 92
A Top-Down Look at the Problem......Page 97
Conclusions......Page 100
Policy Options to Address U.S. National Security Concerns Linked to Imported Oil......Page 103
Policies to Mitigate Disruptions in the Supply of Oil......Page 104
Policies to Expand Domestic Sources of Supply......Page 107
Policies to Reduce Domestic Consumption of Oil......Page 111
Policies to Reduce U.S. Expenditures to Defend Oil Supplies from the Persian Gulf......Page 113
Policy Effects and Trade-Offs......Page 114
Designing Effective Policies for Addressing U.S. Energy-Security Concerns......Page 115
Bibliography......Page 119