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Robert Ebel, a senior adivser with the CSIS Energy and National Security Program, was quoted by the Globe and Mail, "A New Kind of 'Energy Crisis.'"
May 29, 2008

Author:

Barrie McKenna and Richard Blackwell

Associated Programs:

Energy and National Security

Related Research Focus:

Energy

Experts :

Robert E. Ebel

Excerpt:

There was barely a whimper when the price of oil raced passed key milestones this decade – $50 (U.S.) a barrel, $80, even $100. [. . .]

“It's basically a price problem,” said Mr. Ebel, a senior adviser at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It's beginning to hurt. You see it at the grocery store. You see at the gas station. It's having an effect on every segment of the economy.

It's something people are going to have to adapt to.”

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