The age of oil : the mythology, history, and future of the world's most controversial resource /
Explores the obsessions and misperceptions surrounding the resource that has shaped our lives, demonstrating that oil will be with us for a long time to come. Oil is the most vital resource of our time. Because it is so important, misperceptions about the black gold abound. The author clears the cob...
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Publishers,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. A History of an Unreliable Market (and the Bad Policies it Prompted).
- John D. Rockefeller's cursed legacy
- The age of gasoline and oil imperialism
- The carve-up of Arabia's oil
- The oil glut of the 1930s
- Cold War fears and the U.S.-Arabian link
- The Iran tragedy and the "seven sisters" cartel
- The golden age of oil and its limits
- Oil and the explosion of Arab nationalism
- The first oil shock
- The second oil shock
- The countershock
- A storm in the desert : the first Gulf crisis
- The Soviet implosion and the troubled Caspian El Dorado
- The collapse of oil prices and industry megamergers
- The first oil crisis of the twenty-first century
- Part Two. Misperceptions and Problems Ahead.
- Are we running out of oil?
- The inner secrets of oil
- The puzzle of oil reserves and production, and the quest for their control
- The problems with oil quality, price, and consumption trends
- Flawed forecasts, foggy alternatives to oil
- Arabs, Islam, and the myth of oil security
- Appendixes.
- 1. Proven reserves, production, and reserves life index of the first twenty oil countries in the world and world totals (2004)
- 2. Consumption trends of the first twenty countries in the world (1980-2004)
- 3. Main features of some qualities of crude oil
- 4. The largest national oil companies
- 5. The largest international oil companies.