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The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century

by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words

living in the middle of nowhere. He kept on asking questions: about the climate, about Russia, about the future of the Barents Sea. ‘Norway is addicted to oil, even more so than Russia. Wouldn’t we do far better to put those huge investments into green projects?’ He had a room in a

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

by Gary Greenberg · 1 May 2013 · 480pp · 138,041 words

the word,” believing that it carries too much stigma. Avoiding the a-word is “useless,” O’Brien said. “When you have the president talking about addiction to oil, the word has lost its pejorative tone,” and besides, even if the president did mean it pejoratively, addiction is “what the average doctor is going

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction

by Gabor Mate and Peter A. Levine · 5 Jan 2010 · 504pp · 147,660 words

2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush identified another item of addiction. “Here we have a serious problem,” he said. “America is addicted to oil.” Coming from a man who throughout his financial and political career has had the closest possible ties to the oil industry, this stark admission might

The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--And the Coming Cashless Society

by David Wolman · 14 Feb 2012 · 275pp · 77,017 words

cost of oranges, and the price of oil rose high enough a few years ago for President George W. Bush to acknowledge the U.S. addiction to oil, but that’s not inflation. In-your-face inflation is when you have to run down supermarket aisles, as people had to do for more

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber · 1 Jan 2007 · 498pp · 145,708 words

substances and drugs, including tobacco and alcohol, be effectively regulated when they can so easily slip the bonds of national oversight? Critics of the American “addiction to oil,” including President Bush himself, as well as critics of President Bush who protest his outsourcing of American port security to firms under the sway of

Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future

by Robert Bryce · 26 Apr 2011 · 520pp · 129,887 words

. And that happy talk has contributed to a widespread sense of guilt. Here’s an exercise: The next time you hear someone say “We are addicted to oil” or “We are addicted to coal,” try this: Substitute the word “prosperity” for “oil” or “coal.” I don’t offer that idea to be flippant

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Exist, We’d Have to Invent It AMIDST ALL THE RHETORIC about the evils of oil, the evils of OPEC, the claims that we are “addicted” to oil, that oil fosters terrorism, that we can “win the oil endgame,” or that oil is killing the planet, the simple, unavoidable truth is that using

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence

by Robert Bryce · 16 Mar 2011 · 415pp · 103,231 words

of energy independence. 2 THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL OF ENERGY INDEPENDENCE I n early 2006, George W. Bush famously declared that America was “addicted to oil.” That surely is true. America is addicted to oil. And that habit is big and costly. But pardon me for asking an impertinent— but critical—question: So what? Every other country

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on the planet is addicted to oil, too. Other developed countries—namely, Japan, Germany, and France—import nearly all of their oil and they have been doing so for many years.1

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Persian Gulf. They are not panicking, nor are their leaders yammering about energy independence. The countries of the world, the people of the world, are addicted to oil because it is a remarkably flexible substance. It’s compact, contains loads of heat energy, is easily transported, and can be used for a myriad

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is the largest scam in our nation’s history.” Herewith, an itemized invoice of that scam. BILLIONS IN SUBSIDIES—FOR WHAT, EXACTLY? If America is “addicted” to oil, then it’s equally true that the corn ethanol industry is a world-class junkie when it comes to subsidies. For decades, American politicians have

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. Bush’s State of the Union speech, which had occurred just a few weeks earlier. During that speech, Bush had said the U.S. was “addicted” to oil and that America should “make our dependence on Middle Eastern oil a thing of the past.”4 240 GUSHER OF LIES After a short bit

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

by Steve Coll · 30 Apr 2012 · 944pp · 243,883 words

” On January 31, 2006, President George W. Bush delivered a State of the Union address in which he declared that the United States was, unfortunately, “addicted” to oil. A generation after President Jimmy Carter had declared America’s oil dependency to be the “moral equivalent of war,” and as casualties in Bush’s

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his exhaustion with radical suppliers such as Venezuela and Iran: Keeping America competitive requires affordable energy. And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology. . . . And we are on the

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the president’s romanticism about energy “independence” and alternative technologies as misguided. Describing the United States as addicted to oil was “an unfortunate choice of words, quite frankly,” Tillerson said. “To say that you’re addicted to oil and natural gas seems to me to say you’re addicted to economic growth.”3 ExxonMobil executives privately

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the phones to track what might emerge in the energy policy sections of the annual State of the Union, but in the case of the “addicted to oil” speech in 2006, they failed to intervene successfully. Drafts of the president’s address were very closely held. They learned that a push toward ethanol

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by alternative energy and import-independence advocates, ExxonMobil’s executives and lobbyists developed a response, which they delivered, particularly in the period that followed the “addicted to oil” declaration, in their own speeches at universities and economic forums, and on PowerPoint slides that ExxonMobil lobbyists handed out on Capitol Hill. These arguments addressed

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serve as ExxonMobil’s principal lobbyist in the United States Senate. He worked the Senate aisles alongside Dan Nelson by the time of Bush’s “addicted to oil” speech. Bush also pledged to redouble the federal government’s investments in ethanol, a form of alcohol. Might that be the “black swan” fuel that

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

by Elizabeth Abbott · 14 Sep 2011 · 522pp · 144,511 words

in the old—and drastically changing political priorities. In the United States, a growing revulsion against the political and environmental consequences of dependence on (or addiction to) oil has sparked a rush to ethanol and federal tax credits for its production. The urgency and incentives to mass-produce ethanol have created serious new

Bleeding Edge: A Novel

by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words

, anybody feel like grabbing a pizza?” Rhetorical, it seems. Under the high-arching openwork of the Bayonne Bridge. Oil-storage tanks, tanker traffic forever unsleeping. Addiction to oil gradually converging with the other national bad habit, inability to deal with refuse. Maxine has been smelling garbage for a while, and now it intensifies