Eastern Europe's resource crisis, with special emphasis on energy resources: dependence and policy options

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6476593

Hoffman, G W

An examination is made of Eastern Europe's energy resource shortages impact on its future economic and political development and its dependence on the Soviet Union as its main source of supply. The possible solutions to this problem are considered, as well as the impact of those solutions. How this dependence operates in insuring a dependable supply of Soviet oil, natural gas, coal, electricity, and various raw materials through, wherever possible, an exchange arrangement, leaving a sufficiently wide margin to satisfy both domestic needs and hard currency markets of individual East European countries is discussed. While stressing mostly regional disparities in resource endowment and the energy resource supply problem faced by the six European CMEA countries, the discussion also deals with the consequences of their resource dependence on efforts to build a modern industrial base, for which a dependable and growing supply of various raw materials is essential. Chapters are: Energy Crisis in the 1970s; Eastern Europe's Options in the 1980s. (MCW)

• Research Organization: Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Center for Energy Studies
• OSTI ID: 6476593
• Report Number(s): UT/CES-PS-14
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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