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Condoleezza Rice’s Energy Guy
By Mr Ethanol | May 30, 2007
Energy Central:
One floor under U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s top-level suite at the State Department sits a sparsely furnished office taken over by Gregory Manuel at the beginning of the year.
Manuel works with an intensity and focus that reflect his awareness that the challenges are immense and the Bush administration is entering its twilight years.
Few noticed when Rice last fall named Manuel her special energy adviser and international energy coordinator. She made the move amid rising concern about global warming and the dangers facing vital Mideast oil supplies.
The press release announcing Manuel’s appointment said the new position is “at the critical nexus of energy, diplomacy and national security.”
One month after he was named to the job, Energy Central met Manuel in La Jolla, Calif., at a conference on emerging technologies in Europe and the United States. We later arranged to meet with him in his Foggy Bottom office.
His appointment, he said, is an outgrowth of “the secretary’s vision” and understanding of the growing impact of energy on foreign policy in numerous ways. Poor countries spend a larger share of their gross national product on energy than do rich countries, Manuel said. A handful of oil suppliers can use “the energy card for political gain … at times, to the detriment of what Western powers would like to see happen,” he said. And energy affects environmental and health issues.
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