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# America’s Drive for Energy Independence: Fueling the Oil Price Boom? 

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Date and Time 

April 9, 2008 11:30 AM - 1 PM EDT 

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Auditorium/Wintergarden 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring **A. F. Alhajji**, Associate Professor at the College of Business Administration, Ohio Northern University. Moderated by **Jerry Taylor**, Cato Institute. 

America’s increasingly loud and bipartisan call for energy independence may well be having a negative impact on world crude oil markets. A. F. Alhajji, one of America’s most widely published academic oil economists, believes that investment trends in oil-producing countries are being affected by our (largely rhetorical) campaign against foreign oil. The net result is less oil and gas exports and higher world prices. Alhajji is a syndicated columnist and a regular contributing editor for one of the industry’s premier publications, *World Oil* magazine. In addition, he is an associate editor for *Oil, Gas and Energy Law*. Alhajji is also the energy columnist for the major daily business newspaper in Saudi Arabia, *Aleqtisadiah*. His articles have appeared in numerous countries and in more than 10 languages.

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