Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Frank Verrastro, director of the CSIS Energy and National Security Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Oil Crisis Fuels Blame Game."
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Frank Verrastro, director of the CSIS Energy and National Security Program, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Oil Crisis Fuels Blame Game."
WASHINGTON -- Runaway oil prices have set off a furious new blame game in which political leaders and key economic players are scrambling to deflect responsibility for the deepening crisis.
"Everybody's got their preferred culprits," said Frank A. Verrastro, a longtime U.S. energy official who is now director of the energy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Nobody wants to look in the mirror."
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