The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource (Hardcover)

A History of an Unreliable Market (and the Bad Policies It Prompted) John D. Rockefeller's Cursed Legacy The Age of Gasoline and Oil Imperialism The Carve-up of Arabia's Oil The Oil Glut of the 1930s Cold War Fears and the U.S.-Arabian Link The Iran Tragedy and the Seven Sisters' Cartel The Golden Age of Oil and Its Limits Oil and the Explosion of Arab Nationalism The First Oil Shock The Countershock A Desert in the Storm: The First Gulf Crisis The Soviet Implosion and the Caspian's Troubled Eldorado The Collapse of Oil Prices and Industry Megamergers The First Oil Crisis of the 21st Century Misperceptions and Problems Ahead Are We Running Out of Oil? The Inner Secrets of Oil The Puzzle of Oil Reserves, Production and the Quest for Their Control The Problems With Oil Quality, Price, and Consumption Trends Flawed Forecasts, Foggy Alternatives to Oil Arabs, Islam, and the Myth of Oil Security Appendixes Proven Reserves, Production, and Reserves Life Index of the First 20 Oil Countries in the World and the World (2004) Consumption Trends of the First 20 Countries in the World, 1980-2004 Main Features of Some Qualities of Crude Oil Oil Production of the "Seven Sisters" and Global Oil Production, 1950-1966 The Largest National Oil Companies The Largest International Oil Companies Bibliography Index