TY - BOOK AU - Marrin,Albert TI - Black gold: the story of oil in our lives SN - 9780375866739 AV - TN872.A5 M39 2012 U1 - 553.2 MAR PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Petroleum KW - United States KW - History KW - Juvenile literature N1 - 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 N2 - A history of the slick and foul-smelling substance that drives our existence and that becomes scarcer as our dependence on it grows ER -