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The Question 3
Both the USA and UK have around 5 years' oil supply left, or less. Their
increasing reliance on imports is having a serious effect on the balance of
payments. As a reflection of the UK's oil trade deficit, the UK's balance
of payments is currently running at over £40b p.a. Harold Macmillan's
Conservative government was thrown out of office in 1964 for having a
balance of payments deficit of well under £1b. The US balance of payments
in 2003 was running at a £542b deficit. 3
The third is that oil and politics are increasingly intermingled. It's
particularly apparent in the present US government. Vice-President Dick
Cheney previously served as chairman and chief executive of Halliburton
Co., the world's largest oilfield services company, which had operations
in Azerbaijan. Cheney and Donald Evans, Commerce Secretary, both
ran energy-related companies and earned millions of dollars from oil.
Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor, was a director with Chevron
from 1991 until January 2001 and had a company oil tanker named after
her. Brent Scowcroft, advisor to Rice and national security advisor to
Bush Sr., was a director of Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. and Enron Global
Power & Pipelines, a unit of Enron Corp. Christine Todd Whitman, the
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, owned interests
in oil wells in Texas and Colorado. Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary,
had between $3.25m and $15.5m worth of investments in energy-related
companies. James Baker, advisor to the Bush family and former Secretary