id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2r5rif75srggvaafiwxc7rejfa Marilyn A. Brown Assessing U.S. energy policy 2006 8 .pdf application/pdf 3880 201 53 Brown, Marilyn A, Sovacool, Benjamin K and Hirsh, Richard F (2006) Assessing U.S. energy billions of dollars throughout the economy, most other indicators of energy autonomy–such as the percentage of imported fuel–demonstrate that the country has become less independent than First, the United States remains vulnerable to the risk of oil-supply disruptions, despite plenty of warnings over members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (opec) orchestrated an oil embargo, the ½rst supply disruption to cause major price increases and a worldwide energy crisis. Because spare production capacity is both extremely limited and concentrated in one volatile region, world oil markets remain vulnerable to short-term disruptions. The United States remains more susceptible today to oil-supply disruptions to grow: the Energy Information Administration forecasted in 2005 that electricity use will increase at a rate of 1.9 percent annually through 2025. opec oil embargo, U.S. energy consumption grew in lockstep with the nation's gross domestic product (gdp). ./cache/work_2r5rif75srggvaafiwxc7rejfa.pdf ./txt/work_2r5rif75srggvaafiwxc7rejfa.txt