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."
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"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."
"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."
"This book evaluates fossil fuels from a profoundly humanist viewpoint by asking the question, "Are these energy source good, on balance, for the lives of humans on earth?""
"I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the topic especially if you hold a position against fossil fuel use."
3 Oil 101
OIL 101 is a straightforward guide to oil and an essential read for anyone coming to grips with where oil prices, the economy and society are headed. A quick measure comes up with more than 10 ft of shelf space filled with books relating to the topic...of my collection only 8 books sit on my desk. ...It differs from them, however, both in being focused not just on oil, but also in explaining more of the financial matters that play such a significant part in the price we pay for oil and thereafter for the gas that goes into the tank.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"A lot has changed about technology and production costs and the book in general writes off unconventional oil as a whole for the uneconomical nature (at the time)."
"I purchased this book strictly with the intention of learning more about the trading side of the business but was very pleasantly surprised to find that it started from the very bottom of the ladder and revealed practically every essential detail of the industry. I look forward to an updated version that perhaps expands some more on the world's oil balance given recent large discoveries in Brazil and Africa (East and West). Im not sure if the topic can be rightly squeezed into the same volume but a "Gas 101" might be a likewise appreciated accompaniment to this handy piece of work."
"This book is not written to impress academics with jargon, it is written to be accessible to the type of reader it is targeted for, which is good news for you if you are interested in investing in the petroleum business and want a background."
"Excellent coverage of oil and the oil industry."
"Almost everything else I've read seems like pure polemic (plenty of self-interest on both sides of the argument I guess). His measured responses to some, at best misdirected, comments following his piece make interesting reading too (...and in the unlikely event I ever make it to NY I'll be taking the author's book with me, and taking up his offer of a few Brooklyn Beers!"
"With this book, I now have a more wholesome understanding (but no definite investments yet)in the oil industry."
Best Natural Resource Extraction Industry
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."