Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 7

13-February-2006

REGIONAL

Bush Plan For Reducing Flow Of Foreign Oil

By Hisham Khatib

The following article was written for MEES by Dr Khatib, Honorary Vice Chairman, World Energy Council. The views expressed are only those of the author.

In his annual State of the Union address on 31January President George Bush gave an important speech in which energy strategy in the US figured highly. In his most striking declaration Mr Bush said that America is...