Oil on the brain :

Margonelli, Lisa.

Oil on the brain : adventures from the pump to the pipeline. Lisa Margonelli. - First Edition - New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2007. - 324 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gas station -- Distribution -- Refinery -- Oil fields of Texas -- Strategic petroleum reserve -- New York commodies exchange -- Venezuela -- Chad -- Iran -- Nigeria -- China.

The aim of this book is to understand the economies, destinies and dreams shared by the people who live along the world's piplelines. The author sought to chronicle the culture of oil by tracing it from when it is taken from the earth to when it is put in our cars.

9780385511452 (alk. paper) 0385511450 (alk. paper)

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Petroleum industry and trade.

HD 9560.5 / .M336 2007