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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Rubio Calls Out Biden on Foreign Dependence on Oil

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Energy Independence

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/rubio-calls-out-biden-on-foreign-dependence-on-oil_4590842.html

US Vice President Joe Biden (R) meets with Chinese vice leader Xi Jinping in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 14, 2012. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Amid oil price hikes, U.S. President Joe Biden will “almost certainly” seek help from China, whose ruling Communist Party has pursued political gains while exporting refined products, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says.

“Thanks to a combination of now-President Biden’s horrific policies and a decades-long war against American-made energy, Americans find themselves begging foreign nations for oil and gasoline,” Rubio wrote in an op-ed published in National Review on July 7.

Biden, who is facing mounting pressures as soaring prices at the pump have left American drivers frustrated, eased sanctions on Venezuela in May, allowing the U.S. oil company Chevron to negotiate with the country’s state-backed oil company.

The president will travel to Saudi Arabia this week and is expected to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the oil-rich kingdom’s de facto leader, who is believed to be behind the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

“But what comes next will be even more embarrassing for the United States: President Biden will almost certainly ask the Chinese Communist Party to power up its refineries and ship refined petroleum products to America,” Rubio wrote.

“And he will be willing to pay a high price for it, likely by removing hundreds, if not thousands, of tariffs that help American industry compete with cheap—and forced—Chinese labor.”

Biden said on June 19 that he would speak with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping “soon” and is in the process of deciding what to do with the tariffs on more than $300 worth of Chinese goods imposed by the Trump administration.

“It only takes a little foresight to see how refined petroleum products may become part of the bargain,” Rubio wrote.

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Rubio, who introduced a bill to ban oil export to China last month, criticized the move as “unacceptable” and called on boosting domestic oil production.

“Instead of groveling to a Marxist regime determined to overtake our country, we should focus inward and send a signal that we welcome all American energy production, including oil and natural gas,” he wrote.

“If President Biden needs more resources or authorities to keep current refineries online and fast-track new capacity, he should ask Congress for help. But he needs to ask us, not the Chinese Communist Party.”

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.

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