Oil on the Brain Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank

Name: Oil on the Brain Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank
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ISBN: 9780767916974

ISBN-10: 0767916972

ISBN-13: 9780767916974

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Authors: Lisa Margonelli

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Oil on the Brainis a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the 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 Margonelli’s 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 Exchange’s crude oil market, oil fields from Venezuela, to…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.90" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

LISA MARGONELLI is currently an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. She has written for the "San Francisco Chronicle," "Wired," "Business 2.0," "Discover," and "Jane," and was the recipient of a Sundance Institute Fellowship and an excellence in journalism award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. She is based in Oakland, California.



Introduction



Gas Station: Chasing the Hidden Penny



Distribution: Waiting in the Traffic Jam



Refinery: Thirty Seconds of Panic



Drilling Rig: Living by the Drill Bit in Texas



Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Mysteries of the Hoard



Nymex Oil Market: Risky Living in the Giant Brain



Venezuela: Ninety Years of "The Struggle"



Chad: Betting on the Lion People



Iran: Revisiting a Mini-Epic Battle



Nigeria: Calling the Warlord's Cell Phone



China: Driving the "Aspire"


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes and References


Index