petroleum industry and trade

With Iran and Russia angling to take over oil resources in the Caspian Sea, the Navy SEALs, accompanied by Major Jessica Van Pachen and the Rogue Warrior, are sent in to protect American interests in the region.

"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at best a stepping-stone. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Sandy scouring the Atlantic, the need for much deeper solutions was obvious. Some of those would come at the local level, and McKibben recounts a year he spends in the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole. Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight--from the absolute center of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers to the climate crisis. With characteristic empathy and passion, he reveals the imperative to work on both levels, telling the story of raising one year's honey crop and building a social movement that's still cresting"--.

Presents a scientific perspective on the declining supply of fossil fuel throughout the world, discussing what might happen to climate and civilization in the face of a permanent oil shortage.

Traces the history of oil, discussing how it has been used and collected throughout history, its impact on the modern world, the possible crisis diminishing supplies pose, and other related topics.

Explores the petroleum industry, describing the people and policies that bring oil to the United States, and discussing distribution, drilling, the NYMEX oil market, and other related issues.

Discusses the impact of oil on world economic, social, and political structures since large-scale exploration began in the mid-nineteenth century.

Argues against beliefs that the world's oil supply is depleting and its consequences, discussing the amount of available oil, military control over oil supply, and alternative energy sources.

Chronicles the discovery of oil in Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, focusing on the gusher, speculators, quick fortunes, and population explosion which led to the broader significance of oil as a new energy source.