Oil: Resources Production Uses Impacts

The complete story of the one resource that built the modern world — told with clarity and authority by one of the world's foremost energy thinkers.

Every car trip, plastic product, and global supply chain runs on oil, yet few people understand where it comes from, how it's found and refined, or what its true costs are. In this concise, fast-moving primer, Vaclav Smil cuts through the noise to explain the entire petroleum enterprise from the ground up.

In clear, jargon-free prose, Oil traces...