Delve into '12: Running Out, or Runneth Over?
Channel: New America
Date: 13/07/2012

Delve into '12: Running Out, or Runneth Over?
Scrutinizing a Potential New Golden Age of Oil, and What it Could Mean for the Next President

Less than a year ago, industry experts were warning of a world of oil scarcity and the prospect of resource war among nations fighting for their share of a short global supply. Now, new projections have energy analysts heralding a future of cheap, abundant oil, with the possibility of energy independence for North America. If the new narrative turns out to be true, it could have a profound effect on the feasibility of alternative energy and how we view climate change; it could also fundamentally reshape the geopolitical landscape. Are the projections valid, or the product of aspiration? If we have entered a new golden age of fossil fuels, how will it influence politics at home and abroad?


Agenda

9:00 a.m. -- Introduction
Steve LeVine -- @stevelevine
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Contributing Editor, "The Oil and the Glory" blogger, Foreign Policy magazine
 
9:05 a.m. -- Crude Numbers: Are We on the Verge of a Major Oil Boom?
 
Adam Sieminski -- @EIAgov
Administrator, Energy Information Administration
U.S. Department of Energy
 
Edward Morse -- @Citi
Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities Research
Citigroup
 
Moderator
Michael Levi -- @levi_m
Director, Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Council on Foreign Relations
 
9:45 a.m. -- Power Play: Who Rules in an Age of Abundance?
 
Edward Chow -- @CSISEnergy
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program
Center for Strategic & International Studies
 
John Hofmeister -- @cfaenergy
Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy
Retired President, Shell Oil Company USA
 
Michael Levi -- @levi_m
Director, Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Council on Foreign Relations
 
Edward Morse -- @Citi
Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities Research
Citigroup
 
Adam Sieminski -- @EIAgov
Administrator, Energy Information Administration
U.S. Department of Energy
 
Robin West -- @PFC_Energy
Chairman and CEO
PFC Energy
 
Moderator
Susan Glasser -- @FP_Magazine
Editor in Chief
Foreign Policy magazine

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