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Independence, risk, and energy: a view from Saudi Arabia

11/22/2010
by Bob Tippee, EditorFrom Saudi Arabia, US bluster about energy independence must look delusional.Saudi Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud, a former ambassador to the US, didn't express the kingdom's view in those stark terms in a Nov. 11 lecture at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston. But he raised issues frequently overlooked in American discussions of the subject. He asserted, for example, that the pursuit of energy independence eventually will drive producers and consumers toward interdependence. And he supported work on energy other than oil."No country can or should power itself from one form of energy," said Faisal, who was ambassador in the US in 2...
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