{"id":136,"date":"2006-06-10T07:36:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T07:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/10\/oil-a-concise-guide-to-the-most-important-product-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T15:18:23","slug":"oil-a-concise-guide-to-the-most-important-product-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2006\/06\/10\/oil-a-concise-guide-to-the-most-important-product-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-136\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/159558028X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1149949649\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-1550599-2932725?%5Fencoding=UTF8\" target=\"NewWindow\">Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Matthew Yeomans<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>272 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>New Press (January 5, 2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>159558028X<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On my last trip to visit family in Detroit, Aviva and I stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/\" target=\"NewWindow\">the Bookbeat<\/a> , a very interesting independent bookstore in Southfield, MI.  They specialize in art, beat culture and off-beat books.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a copy of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Oil<\/span> because I&#8217;d brought along a business book and wanted something to read that would take my mind off work for a few days.  I also figured that I should know more about oil because it has such a deep influence in American culture and business.<\/p>\n<p>The back cover says, &#8221; Here is an essential guide to the stuff that fuels virtually our every move and spills into global economies, international politics, human rights, and the health of our planet.&#8221;  And that&#8217;s what the book addresses, beginning with early oil exploration and how kerosene and then gasoline drove the large oil rushes of the early and mid 20th century.  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