Oil, from pricing and purchasing to drilling and trading, is a commodity surrounded by fierce debate. Its impact is felt by even casual consumers around the world, and whether you're filling a tank of gas for the commute to work or buying a plastic bottle of water, you're interacting with either petroleum products or products reliant on petroleum.
Our growing dependence on this precious natural resource has led to its extreme increase in price and production over the past four decades—from a price of $1.80 per barrel in the 1960s to a high of $145 in July 2008 to an unstable and volatile price in the $80s during the spring of 2010. This wild growth has ramifications larger than the surging cost of derivative products and has led to excessive enrichment and power in dangerously aggressive nations.
In Seizing Power, author Robert Slater discusses the rising danger of global oil power as it has shifted over the past several decades into the hands of a few newly wealthy nations. Page by page, he asks and answers important questions regarding the present oil supremacy and reveals what the future political landscape could look like. Topics touched upon include:
Growing consumption by India and China
The new Middle East, including Iran, the UAE, and the Saudis
Peak oil, speculators, and the volatile price problem
The risks of Russian oil
Drilling at home and abroad
South America: Venezuela and Brazil
The ethics of the oil business
Oil power in Africa
Filled with in-depth insights and practical points, Seizing Power argues that until we find an alternative and cost-efficient fuel to run the engines of industry, we will remain at the mercy of those who control one of the world's most precious resources.
Oil, from pricing and purchasing to drilling and trading, is a commodity surrounded by fierce debate. Its impact is felt by even casual consumers around the world, and whether you're filling a tank of gas for the commute to work or buying a plastic bottle of water, you're interacting with either petroleum products or products reliant on petroleum.
Our growing dependence on this precious natural resource has led to its extreme increase in price and production over the past four decades—from a price of $1.80 per barrel in the 1960s to a high of $145 in July 2008 to an unstable and volatile price in the $80s during the spring of 2010. This wild growth has ramifications larger than the surging cost of derivative products and has led to excessive enrichment and power in dangerously aggressive nations.
In Seizing Power, author Robert Slater discusses the rising danger of global oil power as it has shifted over the past several decades into the hands of a few newly wealthy nations. Page by page, he asks and answers important questions regarding the present oil supremacy and reveals what the future political landscape could look like. Topics touched upon include:
Growing consumption by India and China
The new Middle East, including Iran, the UAE, and the Saudis
Peak oil, speculators, and the volatile price problem
The risks of Russian oil
Drilling at home and abroad
South America: Venezuela and Brazil
The ethics of the oil business
Oil power in Africa
Filled with in-depth insights and practical points, Seizing Power argues that until we find an alternative and cost-efficient fuel to run the engines of industry, we will remain at the mercy of those who control one of the world's most precious resources.
Seizing Power: The Grab for Global Oil Wealth
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