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GlobalResourcesNews.com examines the conflict over commodities and resources such as oil, water, land and minerals. We cover the competing interests of trade, local society and environmental concerns.
Our coverage is based on well-documented data about these issues, drawing on authoritative sources, describing these conflicts over commodities in a neutral tone.
We hope you will use this information to assess risks about the conflicts over commodities and use that assessment to guide your decisions in the fields of oil, gas, shale, land, food and other commodities.
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which are neither free nor stable. Click on map for more details.
Global Resources News has collated four major political indices and matched them with the volume of net imports of oil from the subject countries.
The result shows that a full 60 percent of the oil supplied to the United States comes from countries which score or rank poorly on those indicators. Of the 8.683 million barrels of the net imports that flow into the US each day from 51 countries, 5.29 million come from troubled nations.
The countries were measured on freedom using the Freedom House Freedom Status designation. Their stability was indicated by the Failed State Index. The Corruption Perception Index ranked the countries for financial integrity, and the Global Peace Index provided a perspective on how much the countries were subject to violence.
For more information see our an interactive map and a table of the results, or our story about political status of US oil suppliers.
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which are not free nor stable. Click on map for more details.
The increasing difficulties in maintaining high production rates is the key metric in this conflict. Although the earth may contain billions of barrels of oil or similar hydrocarbons, it is only the amount that can be extracted in a timely fashion that is use to economies and societies. There have been many examples of this extraction rate going into decline after a high point, a phenomenon called "Peak Oil." The United States experience Peak Oil in the early 1970's. As other countries, and ultimately the world as a whole, go into Peak Oil phases, competition is expected to become more intense.
The map to the right shows the political status of countries which export oil to the United States. The green countries are assessed as 'free' by the think tank Freedom House. The yellow countries are 'partly free' and the purple are 'not free.' The United States gets 60 percent of its foreign oil from countries which are neither free, peaceful nor stable. Click on the map to enlarge it and for a table and its accompanying story.
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