By Robert Rapier, engineering director at ZHRO Power, an Arizona-based technology company | The Wall Street Journal
The International Energy Agency made headlines [last week] in its World Energy Outlook 2017 when it proclaimed that the U.S. was set to become a net exporter of petroleum within a decade. Is energy independence a realistic goal for the U.S.? If so, what needs to happen and how quickly might we achieve it?
The U.S. is relatively self-sufficient when it comes to most of our energy sources. The one glaring exception is petroleum. The U.S. has been dependent on foreign oil for decades. Every U.S. president since Nixon has declared our dependence on foreign oil to be a matter of national security, yet the goal of energy independence has eluded us.
