Black gold : the story of oil in our lives / Albert Marrin.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 181 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780375866739
- 0375866736 (hbk.)
- 9780375966736 (lib. bdg.)
- 0375966730 (lib. bdg.)
- 553.2 MAR
- TN872.A5 M39 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : how Daddy nearly blew himself up -- A freak of geology -- Black gold -- The destiny of nations -- Automobiles and Middle Eastern oil -- Hopeless monsters -- Richest prize, greatest problem -- A day of reckoning -- Fossil fuels and the natural environment -- Toward a new energy order.
A history of the slick and foul-smelling substance that drives our existence and that becomes scarcer as our dependence on it grows.
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