Machine generated contents note: Part I The Approaching Summit -- 1 Introduction to the Way Down -- 2 The Present Condition -- 3 Intellectual Views of the Future -- Part II System Principles -- 4 The Ways of Energy and Materials in All Systems -- 5 Pulsing and the Growth Cycle -- 6 Real Wealth...

Author and historian Bruce A. Beaubouef examines, for the first time, the interactions that have shaped the development of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). In a time of continued vulnerability, this definitive work will be of interest to those concerned with the history, economy, and...