About this title: Starting at a local gas station, Margonelli sets off to meet the people behind the pump, who lead her deep into the economics, politics, chemistry, and culture of petroleum. Along the oil supply chain, through the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the NYMEX oil market, she finds unexpected delights and troubling contradictions.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Date Published: 02/2007
ISBN-13:9780385511452ISBN:0385511450
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Description: NY: Doubleday 2007, HB, 1st edition, 324p., fine/good, fine condition hardbound with good condition dustjacket showing a slice the length of the front of the dustjacket and now in mylar. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385511452ISBN:0385511450
Description: New in new dust jacket. First Edition, First Print. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 2008-02-12
ISBN-13:9780767916974ISBN:0767916972
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780767916974ISBN:0767916972
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385511452ISBN:0385511450
Description: New in fine dust jacket. (s7-2) 1st edition Hardback Book is brand new in Near Mint cond, with dj in Near Mint cond. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385511452ISBN:0385511450
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing. Not remainder marked or price clipped. Shipped to you in a box, not a padded mailer. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780385511452ISBN:0385511450
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 324 p. Audience: General/trade. Brand New-Gift QUality In a plastic cover read more
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"This is a breezy, light-hearted history of oil from the first discoveries in the mid-nineteenth century to just a few months ago. Starting and ending with a neighborhood independent gas station, Ms. Margonelli travels the world to learn all about exploration, discoveries, extraction and delivery of what one of the guards at the secret Strategic Petroleum Reserve storage area disregards with: "Oil? It smells bad and comes out of the ground. What more do you need to know?" Actually, it would be good to know if this controversial deposit of 700,000,000 barrels of oil is actually there. If it is, how much can we get out? How fast can we retrieve it and where would we put it once it was above ground again? Will increasing this safety net to 1 Billion barrels make us safer?
With a down to earth attitude, Ms. Margonelli gets across some difficult concepts and provides real insights to many aspect of oil that have people on both sides of the question claiming the other side is wrong.
This is an interesting book. It could have been shorter, although at 300 pages it surely doesn't tell the whole story. I also would have appreciated some photos."
"It's about OIL, so how could you not love it? But there's a little too much about the people involved, and not quite enough about the sweeet, sweet crude itself. Less time with convenience store cashiers, more in the bowels of the delayed coker!"
"It is an indepth review of the oil industry taking you from the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay to the pump. If you want to know what drives the world economy, read this book!"
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