On oil

"A journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil. Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and it is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments -- in some cases, effectively become the government. In On Oil, Don Gillmor, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the sevent...