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Articles written by Gal Lutz since 2006 via The American Interest. One, written In 2006, titled " Fueled Again?" was written by Lutz and Anne Korin, who as of 2019 was the Chairman of Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.

"The United States has plenty of ways to eliminate its dependency on imported oil. We’d better use them fast."

Other Articles:

Pivot to Asia

Who Lost the Philippines? Gal Luft

In today’s global economy, money speaks louder than morals. The next U.S. administration must factor that into its Asia policy.

Published: Nov 07, 2016

China's Climate Conundrums

How to Make a Mountain of Coal Disappear Gal Luft

China’s pollution books are either messy or cooked. Either option emphasizes the Potemkin nature of a supposedly binding global climate accord.

Published: Nov 09, 2015

Cyrenaica and Tripolitania Redux

Plan B for Libya Gal Luft

Sometimes a divided country is better than a hopeless one.

Published: Oct 01, 2015

U.S. Gas Exports

The Pipe Dream Gal Luft

There are better answers to the North American gas glut than building multi-billion dollar LNG terminals along U.S. coasts to export it.

Published: Aug 04, 2015

China's Game of Thrones

Strategic Implications of Chinese Energy Policy Gal Luft

As China’s far-flung energy acquisition strategy comes a cropper, the geopolitics of China’s ‘near abroad’ is getting dicey.

Published: Feb 03, 2015

Gazproblems

Russia’s Big Bear Hug on China Gal Luft

The mainstream media thought the major headline from the APEC summit was the U.S.-China agreement on climate change. They’re wrong. Russia’s two big pipeline projects to China have the potential to reshape the global energy and security landscape.

Published: Nov 20, 2014

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Since September 11, terrorist groups have identified oil terrorism as a way to break the economic backbone of the West. Until 2002, the oil market had sufficient elasticity to deal with occasional supply disruptions. Such disruptions could be offset by the spare production capacity owned by some OPEC producers, chiefly Saudi Arabia. This spare capacity has been the oil market’s main source of liquidity. But due to burgeoning demand in developing Asia, coupled with the voracious appetites of traditional consumers in the industrialized world, this liquidity mechanism has eroded from seven MBD in 2002, which constituted 10 percent of the market, to about two MBD today, less than 2.5 percent. As a result, the oil market today resembles a car without shock absorbers: The tiniest bump can send a passenger to the ceiling.

Without liquidity, the only mechanism left to bring the market to equilibrium is rapid and uncontrolled price increases. This reality plays into the hands of jihadists who seek to hurt the Western economy by going after what they call “the provision line and the feeding to the artery of the life of the crusader’s nation.” In an October 2004 videotape, Osama bin Laden explained: “We bled Russia for ten years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw [from Afghanistan] in defeat. . . . We are continuing in the same policy to make America bleed profusely to the point of bankruptcy.” And that is why, throughout the world, jihadi terrorists have been attacking oil facilities almost on a daily basis, with significant impact on the oil market.

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