A Greater Depression, or even chaos, is the answer, as was discovered in late June at a war game called “Oil Shockwave.” The participants, including many former Republican administration members, spent several days running through various scenarios of disrupted oil supply. Even with small scale trouble, the exercises quickly spun out of control.
Present was former CIA Director James Woolsey and he was troubled by the outcome. Woolsey, friend to Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, and member of the bonafide neo-con Defense Policy Board, has become an alternative energy buff in the interest of national security. A few weeks later, Woolsey presented a paper along with George Schultz, Reagan’s Secretary of State, to the Committee on the Present Danger about how our oil dependency makes the country extremely vulnerable
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