Age of Oil What They Don't Want You to Know about the World's Most Controversial Resource

Name: Age of Oil What They Don't Want You to Know about the World's Most Controversial Resource
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ISBN: 9781599211183

ISBN-10: 1599211181

ISBN-13: 9781599211183

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Authors: Leonardo Maugeri

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List price: $17.95
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Note by the Author


Preface


List of Abbreviations



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



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



The Long Wave of Resource Nationalism


Appendixes



Proven Reserves, Production, and Reserves Life Index of the First Twenty Oil Countries in the World and World Totals (2004)



Consumption Trends of the First Twenty Countries in the World (1980-2004)



Main Features of Some Qualities of Crude Oil



The Largest National Oil Companies



The Largest International Oil Companies


Notes


Bibliography


Index