Crisis in the Oil Patch: How America's Energy Industry Is Being Destroyed and What Must Be Done to Save It
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0895265028 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 185 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Using stories of people whose lives have been overturned by the decline of the U.S. Crisis in the Oil Patch combines the knowledge and experience of former Secretary of Energy Donald Paul Hodel and Dallas business writer Robert Deitz to show how our government has forced American dependence on foreign energy to dangerous levels. industry, and startling statistics and public policy discussions, the authors detail a stripped industry that has seen ten times the job losses of the auto industry, but none of the public sympathy.
Though titillating and likely to spark vitriolic policy debates in Washington, their arguments run out of gas. . Hodel and Deitz maintain that America must avoid "politically correct" but "technologically flawed" policies (e.g., Clinton's short-lived BTU tax), remove "the alternative minimum tax on domestic oil and gas exploration," curtail foreign oil imports, restore "an oil depletion allowance" and "open up for oil and gas exploration and development all promising federally owned land." Alternative scenarios are eschewed by the authors. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Hodel, who served as Secretary of the Energy and Interior Departments during the Reagan administration, and Dallas jou
Crisis in the Oil Patch - Donald P. Hodel Joel D. Vaughan Would that current and future policy makers read and learn from this master of conservative thought as they consider and try to prevent future crises at the pump.