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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Broadway Books
Publication date
February 12, 2008
Pages
330
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780767916974
ISBN-10
0767916972
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
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As the World Burns | A Man of the People | Field Notes from a Catastrophe | Desert Solitaire | This Changes Everything | The Quest | unSpun | Oil 101 | What Money Can't Buy
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Looks at the economics of the petroleum industry and traces how crude oil from fields around the world eventually becomes the gasoline for automobiles, in a new edition containing an updated epilogue. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industryâthe people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.
Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelliâs desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchangeâs crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle.
In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit.
Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.
Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonelliâs desire to learn took her on a one-hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away. In search of the truth behind the myths, she wriggled her way into some of the most off-limits places on earth: the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the New York Mercantile Exchangeâs crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to Texas, to Chad, and even an Iranian oil platform where the United States fought a forgotten one-day battle.
In a story by turns surreal and alarming, Margonelli meets lonely workers on a Texas drilling rig, an oil analyst who almost gave birth on the NYMEX trading floor, Chadian villagers who are said to wander the oil fields in the guise of lions, a Nigerian warlord who changed the world price of oil with a single cell phone call, and Shanghai bureaucrats who dream of creating a new Detroit.
Deftly piecing together the mammoth economy of oil, Margonelli finds a series of stark warning signs for American drivers.
Editions
Hardcover
from Nan a Talese (January 30, 2007)
9780385511452 | details & prices | 324 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Looks at the economics of the petroleum industry and traces how crude oil from fields around the world eventually becomes the gasoline for automobiles.
About: Looks at the economics of the petroleum industry and traces how crude oil from fields around the world eventually becomes the gasoline for automobiles.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Broadway Books (February 12, 2008)
9780767916974 | details & prices | 330 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Looks at the economics of the petroleum industry and traces how crude oil from fields around the world eventually becomes the gasoline for automobiles, in a new edition containing an updated epilogue.
About: Looks at the economics of the petroleum industry and traces how crude oil from fields around the world eventually becomes the gasoline for automobiles, in a new edition containing an updated epilogue.
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