Strength through exhaustion, or design for resilience?
Pipeline & Gas Journal › Vol. 230 Nbr. 8, August 2003
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A Guest Column - Homeland energy security
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Strength through exhaustion, or design for resilience?
America's security is threatened by dependence on both Middle East oil and fragile domestic infrastructure--such as the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Replacing Middle East oil is vital--but not with equally vulnerable domestic sources that displace and delay abundant, secure, cheaper, and faster alternatives.
Extremely concentrated energy flows reward and invite devastating attack. Two-thirds of Saudi oil flows through one processing plant and two loading terminals. American hydrocarbon flows are less concentrated but are still worrisome. A 1981 Penta...See the full content of this document
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