Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline, (Paperback)

from jcvogan1

Entertaining and mildly informative.

from Stbalbach

Margonelli spent three years traveling around the world documenting different stages in the oil flow. The book can be divided in two parts, the first part in the USA in six chapters: 1) gas station, 2) oil delivery trucks, 3) oil refinery, 4) oil drilling, 5) oil futures market, 6) strategic oil ...

from lmichet

Failed to woo me into a state of entrenched anti-westernism, though not for lack of example or effort. Plenty here that's interesting, but I feel like a real expert in the oil industry could have told me twice as much, given me three times as many opinions, and made it all ten times easier to rel...

from Devil_llama

The author sets out to trace the oil we use backwards from the gas tank to the point of production. She visits refineries, oil drilling sites, and gas stations along the way, then makes her way overseas to visit oil producing countries in the Third World. A good introduction to the subject, thoug...

from BrianFannin

Great book. Depressing as all hell, but one that everyone on earth ought to read.