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Intelligence Matters

Global Energy Expert Daniel Yergin

Intelligence Matters

CBS News

(154991), News, Cbs, Politics, Government

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Global Energy Expert Daniel Yergin about energy security in the context of deep power rivalries as he provides his analysis of Putin's energy miscalculations. Yergin details the Biden administration's efforts to promote more oil production while committing to its long-term climate agenda. He warns against the large impact that any global disturbance can have to tight energy markets.  

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This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel,

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And it turns out Russia was a very important player as a source of refined products.

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It provided a lot of diesel fuel and other fuels like that in Europe.

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And so if half of Russia's product exports shrink, that tightens the whole system.

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And so, you know, refining is very tight.

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And, you know, we're still at that period where I can tell you that in Washington and in Houston,

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a lot of concern, if you have a hurricane that comes along and knocks out a refinery or two,

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then we're back in a really difficult situation in terms of gasoline supply.

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Dan Yurgen is a world-recognized expert on energy.

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He has a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a frequent commentator on global energy issues.

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He joins me today to talk about what is happening in energy markets and where they might be headed in the months ahead.

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