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Oil on the brain : Petroleum's long, strange trip to your tank / Lisa Margonelli.
Publication details: New York : Broadway Books, c2008, 2007.Description: 330 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780767916974 (pbk.) :
- 0767916972 (pbk.) :
- Adventures from the pump to the pipeline
- Oil on the brain petroleum's long, strange trip to your tank
- HD9560.5 .M3185 2008
Contents:
Gas station: chasing the hidden penny -- Distribution: waiting in the traffic jam -- Refinery: thirsty 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 yearsof "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".
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-316) and index.
Gas station: chasing the hidden penny -- Distribution: waiting in the traffic jam -- Refinery: thirsty 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 yearsof "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".
Subtitle varies in other editions.
Other subtitle: "Adventures from the pump to the pipeline"
Originally published in hbk. ed.: New York : Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, c2007.
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