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The explanation, energy expert Alex Epstein argues in The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels , is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We’re taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives—their unique ability to provide cheap, reliable energy for a world of seven billion people. Drawing on original insights and cutting-edge research, Epstein argues that most of what we hear about fossil fuels is a myth. Truth : Fossil fuels are the key to improving the quality of life for billions of people in the developing world. If we withhold them, access to clean water plummets, critical medical machines like incubators become impossible to operate, and life expectancy drops significantly. Taking everything into account, including the facts about climate change, Epstein argues that “fossil fuels are easy to misunderstand and demonize, but they are absolutely good to use. Alex Epstein’s The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels may make your blood boil, but his cool reason and cold, hard facts will lead us beyond hysterics to a much better future.”. — PETER THIEL , technology entrepreneur and investor. As Alex shows, those fuels are allowing billions of people to live fuller, freer, healthier lives.”. — ROBERT BRYCE , author of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If we are to judge whether fossil fuels are good or bad by what they have done to the human standard of living, then fossil fuels are good."
"Epstein suggests that the standard we should employ is human life and that we should consider all energy questions in terms of whether human life will be improved or harmed."
"The book defines the standard, human life, as the reference as it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels."
"An amazing must read book!"
"Having read the "Population Bomb" when Paul Earhart first published it in the early 70's, Epstein's "Moral Case for Fossil Fuels" allows you to finally understand the rationale for the case by environmentalists' to oppose fossil fuels."
"After a week reading the book and thinking what more I may do to help get the word out I contributed $1000 to the author who will send books free to qualified students....If you need another good reason to buy this book please read all the one-star reviews, they make the point..."
"In the available energy rich United States, we are ignorant of suffering that results from inadequate access to energy."
"His thesis, I believe, is sound and needs to be taken seriously by the politicians and bureaucrats responsible for pushing the replacement of fossil fuel with unsustainable alternatives."
An “extraordinary” and “monumental” exposé of Big Oil from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll ( The Washington Post ). Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil—the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States—Steve Coll reveals the true extent of its power. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power is a masterful study of Big Oil's biggest player… Coll's in-depth reporting, buttressed by his anecdotal prose, make Private Empire a must-read. Consider Private Empire a sequel of sorts to The Prize , Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-winning history of the oil industry… Coll's portrait of ExxonMobil is both riveting and appalling… Yet Private Empire is not so much an indictment as a fascinating look into American business and politics.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Pulitzer Prize winner Coll tells the story of ExxonMobil beginning with the 1989 Valdez spill and leading to the Gulf of Mexico spill in 2010."
"What I especially appreciated about this title was Coll's ability to provide both sides of the story, so that it is not just another attack on "Big Oil", but also gives credit to ExxonMobil in the areas where it surpasses its competitors in the quality of its operations (especially with regards to worker safety), and the reasoning behind some of their faults (such as Lee Raymond's refusal to acknowledge climate change arguments)."
"Excellent treatise about ExxonMobil and their business practices."
"Has solidified my opinion that Trump's choice of Secretary of State is another example of playing into the hands of Putin.It was a fascinating and enlightening read."
"Utilizing over 400 interviews, exhaustive documentary research (including Wikileak telegrams), and personal visits to ExxonMobil facilities around the world, Mr. Coll provides a coherent and credible picture of how this ccmpany functioned under CEOs Lee "Iron Ass" Raymond (1993-2005) and Rex Tillerson (2006-). Exxon was driven by a long-term necessity to replace and expand its long-term proven oil and gas reserves and to maintain a high return on investments This was becoming increasingly difficult in the post-Cold War world. The search for new reserves rendered ExxonMobil increasingly dependent on volatile and often corrupt areas ranging from Aceh in Indonesia to Chad and Equatorial Guinea in Africa. For example, in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill, Raymond, after a chat with President H. W. Bush, swiftly scuppered Coast Guard Commandant Paul Yost's urgent demand for an additional 5000 people to clean up the beaches. Though the company had significantly enhanced its safety measures after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, this was an example of how 'Big Oil' would be blamed, even though the immediate culprit was BP and its service contractors."
"I had a very unfavorable view of the oil industry, but I see now how difficult what they do is, and Exxon Mobil, despite its flaws, does it better."
"Coll's long book on ExxonMobil's history and culture was a very enjoyable read."
Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football. In effortlessly lucid prose, Laskas tells stories that spellbind precisely because they remind us of the center that quietly holds America together.”—Robert Draper, author of Do Not Ask What Good We Do. “A wondrous book, fierce and intimate in its investigations...Like Studs Terkel if he wrote novels and Tom Wolfe if he wrote about working folk.”—Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and The Signal.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is an earlier book well worth the read as we navigate our current dangerous political waters."
"Wonderful, enlightening book!"
"That Jeanne Marie Laskas had a vision of writing about the subject of unusual and unusual vocations impressed me in the first place."
"Came in perfect condition!!"
"And the intelligence of these people finding answers and solving problems, as we travelled our trash on beyond setting out our garbage cans."
"Very interesting read to learn about these different occupations and the people who work in them ."
Best Oil & Energy Industry
Deemed "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power has been extensively updated to address the current energy crisis. The Prize portrays the interweaving of national and corporate interests, the conflicts and stratagems, the miscalculations, the follies, and the ironies." "Impassioned and riveting...only in the great epics of Homer will readers regularly run into a comparable string of larger-than-life swashbucklers and statesmen, heroes and villains."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It focuses on the effects of oil on the economies of both consuming and producing nations as well how access to oil affects the political power of nations."
"It makes no sense to export a precious finite resource, and it makes a lot of sense to use our enemy's supply first."
"This is the third copy of this book that I have purchased."
"The sentiments of various people and groups towards oil (good or bad) were negligible in the book which gave it almost a sterile feel. I now have a much stronger understanding of just how oil plays its enormous role in the global society. I can't say enough about how well this book informs its reader in an enjoyable and insightful way. It may at points be dry material, but in no way did i feel like this book was written over my head."
"Although concentrated on the oil industry, this book is really an incredible history of the twentieth century, which makes a lot of sense considering the paramount of oil to that era and now."
"This is a long book, but if you want to write a comprehensive story of oil and its impact on the economy spanning more than a century, it's going to be long."
"This is one of the best histories of the Oil Business."