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Think Again: The American Energy Boom

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  • Michael Levi
    David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies

I have a new essay in the July/August issue of Foreign Policy, out today, that takes aim at some of the emerging conventional wisdom surrounding the American oil and gas boom. Some of the themes will be familiar to readers of this blog. Others will be new. Collectively, I hope, they’ll spur some new thinking about what’s happening in the United States.

The essay drills down on six claims:

Want to know my answers to each of these? Take a look at the article. I’ll have more to say about some of the details in the piece (for example, on how U.S. oil output could affect OPEC dynamics and world prices) in future posts.