VOL. XLVI

No 11

17-March-2003

GENERAL

US Overview Of Global Energy Scene

By Alan Larson

The following is the text of a speech, entitled Reliable Supplies of Energy For A Growing World Economy, delivered by US Under Secretary of State for Energy Alan Larson at New York University on 4 March 2003.

Energy remains a vital ingredient in the modern industrial economies where roughly one billion of the worlds people live. Over the next 50 years, rapid economic progress in the rest of the world will require...