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On Oil

By Don Gillmor
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By Don Gillmor
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A Finalist for the 2026 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

A journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil.

Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments—in some cases, effectively become the government. And now oil's enduring mythology is facing a mes...

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