The 2005 film “Syriana” is a fictional account of the shadowy world of high-level oil and gas trading, international spies, and terrorism. The subtext for its complicated plot is the geopolitical dynamics of the oil and natural gas trade, and the film climaxes with a terrorist attack on an LNG tanker.
While this is a fictional depiction of the impacts that oil and gas trading has on geopolitics, its story is very strongly based on real life events and trends.
Importing LNG will unnecessarily place the West Coast gas and electricity markets at the whim of international politics. It will also deepen our dependence on foreign fossil fuels, and increase the likelihood of foreign intervention.
According to author and Hampshire College professor Michael Klare, fossil fuels are a factor in the Bush Administration’s current saber rattling over Iran. Klare writes,
“… it is evident from the public record that many considerations, including oil, played a role in the administration's decision to invade Iraq. Likewise, it is reasonable to assume that many factors -- again including oil -- are playing a role in the decision-making now underway over a possible assault on Iran.
‘Just exactly how much weight the oil factor carries in the administration's decision-making is not something that we can determine with absolute assurance at this time, but given the importance energy has played in the careers and thinking of various high officials of this administration, and given Iran's immense resources, it would be ludicrous not to take the oil factor into account -- and yet you can rest assured that, as relations with Iran worsen, American media reports and analysis of the situation will generally steer a course well clear of the subject (as they did in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq).”
“….And it is not just oil that Iran possesses in great abundance, but also natural gas. According to Oil and Gas Journal, Iran has an estimated 940 trillion cubic feet of gas, or approximately 16% of total world reserves.”
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