ASSIGNMENT
| The United States is the
world's largest consumer of oil; we obtain our oil from many countries,
but rely heavily on a few. What should our petroleum policy be? |
The goal is to present a
short synopsis of your answer to the above question in class on December
7. After
you present, the whole class will discuss the issue.
To be successful, you should
consider the following questions.
- What portion of U.S. petroleum imports
are derived from each country?
- Is the country a member of OPEC?
- Who runs the country? Is this a
"good" government? Why or why not?
- Is this country politically stable?
Why or why not?
- What is our current policy toward this
country? Why?
- What is the impact of oil production
on this country? (environmental, economic, political)
- Should we buy oil from this country?
If so, how much? (percentage)
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- How do we meet our energy
needs now?
- What is petroleum used for
in the U.S.?
- Should we continue to rely
on petroleum? For what uses?
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You should use the
BlackBoard discussion area to discuss your topic.
The best way to start is to use the
resource page I have created. RESOURCES
For additional resources, go to a
search engine such as Yahoo! or Google and type in key words such as
your countries name and "petroleum" or "oil" or "environment". This will
give you a lot of information and topics to discuss..
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