To Have and Have Not: Energy security vs energy independence in a world awash in cheap oil

Here’s the Pacific, and it’s a world of insufficient fossil energy supply. The growth of nations in this region — and growth they should have — what’s wrong with Asian nations doing well? They and we ought to encourage economic growth and the stability that flows from it. But they are short on energy, energy drives economies forward, and they are getting it mostly from the Middle East.

Now, they have abundant renewable resources. So stabilization in the Asia-Pacific region, and this is my thesis, will flow from stable economic growth, and that comes from accessing these abundant renewable resources.