Why We Hate The Oil Companies

Author : John Hofmeister
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230106781

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Why We Hate the Oil Companies by John Hofmeister Pdf

As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he's a man on a mission, the founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, crisscrossing the country in a grassroots campaign to change the way we look at energy in this country. While pundits proffer false new promises of green energy independence, or flatly deny the existence of a problem, Hofmeister offers an insider's view of what's behind the energy companies' posturing, and how politicians use energy misinformation, disinformation, and lack of information to get and stay elected. He tackles the energy controversy head-on, without regard for political correctness. He also provides a new framework for solving difficult problems, identifying solutions that will lead to a future of comfortable lifestyles, affordable and clean energy, environmental protection, and sustained economic competitiveness.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : SRLF:A0000647131

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The major oil companies by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Anthony Sampson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054047256

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The Seven Sisters by Anthony Sampson Pdf

An expose of the greed that rules the world's most precious commodity--oil and the companies who control the majority--Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Mobil, Socal, B.P. and Shell.

Author : Bianca Sarbu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317695448

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Ownership and Control of Oil by Bianca Sarbu Pdf

Ownership and Control of Oil examines government decisions about how much control to exert over the petroleum industry, focusing on the role of National Oil Companies in the production of crude oil since the nationalizations in the 1970s. What are the motives for which some producing states opt for less and NOT more control of their oil production sector? When can International Oil Companies enter the upstream industry of producing states and under what conditions? The diversity of policy choices across producers provides the stage for this investigation: different theoretical explanations are confronted, with the empirical evidence, with the aim of finally proposing an interdisciplinary framework of analysis to explain who controls oil production around the world. This book is intended for both specialists and general readers who have an interest in the issue of government control of the petroleum industry. Due to its multidisciplinary approach, the book is aimed at a large academic public composed of scholars of Political Science, International Political Economy, Comparative Politics, and Middle East Area Studies. Moreover, this book should be relevant to international consultants, industry professionals and decision-makers in countries assessing their experience with existing control structures as well as the many countries in the process of joining the ‘petroleum club’ of oil producing nations.

Author : Antonia Juhasz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780061982019

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The Tyranny of Oil by Antonia Juhasz Pdf

“Juhasz bravely and expertly exposes the inner workings of an industry and a government riddled with secrets, lies, and deception.” —Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers In the tradition of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Antonia Juhasz’s The Tyranny of Oil offers a chilling exposé of the modern American oil industry and its dire abuse of power. A leading international trade and finance policy expert and the author of The Bush Agenda, Juhasz presents eye-opening truths about a potentially catastrophic global energy crisis that only promises to get much worse in the coming years—and provides possible solutions for meaningful change. Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, calls The Tyranny of Oil “a bold blueprint for ending the madness,” and the Christian Science Monitor tells us, “a good first step toward true energy independence is to read this insightful book.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0844721301

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Horizontal Divestiture in the Oil Industry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780618562114

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The End of Oil by Paul Roberts Pdf

In this frank and balanced investigation, Roberts delves deep into the economics and politics of oil, and considers the promises and pitfalls of alternatives such as wind power, hybrid cars, and hydrogen. A new Afterword brings the book up to the minute.

Author : Michael C. Lynch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9798216040422

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The "Peak Oil" Scare and the Coming Oil Flood by Michael C. Lynch Pdf

Is the earth's oil supply starting to run out, or is there far more oil than some experts believe? This book points out flaws in the research used to warn of an oil shortfall and predicts that large new reserves of oil are soon to be tapped. In the last decade, oil experts, geologists, and policy makers alike have warned that a peak in oil production around the world was about to be reached and that global economic distress would result when this occurred. But it didn't happen. The "Peak Oil" Scare and the Coming Oil Flood refutes the recent claims that world oil production is nearing a peak and threatening economic disaster by analyzing the methods used by the theory's proponents. Author Michael C. Lynch, former researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), debunks the "Peak Oil" crisis prediction and describes how the next few years will instead see large amounts of new supply that will bring oil prices down and boost the global economy. This book will be invaluable to those involved in the energy industry, including among those fields that are competing with oil, as well as financial institutions for which the price of oil is of critical importance. Lynch uncovers the facts behind the misleading news stories and media coverage on oil production as well as the analytic process that reveals the truth about the global oil supply. General readers will be dismayed to learn how governments have frequently been led astray by seeming logical theories that prove to have no sound basis and will come away with a healthy sense of skepticism about popular economics.

Author : Morgan Downey
Publisher : WOODEN TABLE PressLLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Petroleum as fuel
ISBN : 0982039204

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Oil 101 by Morgan Downey Pdf

"Since 1859, oil has enabled and defined our economic, social and political landscape. Throughout this time, abundant supply ensured low, stable prices and the inner workings of the oil industry remained relatively obscure. Following a century and a half of relative calm, oil prices have become much more volatile as the sustainability and growth of reliable supply sources have been brought into question. This book provides a guide to oil; from its history, to sources of supply and drivers of demand; from how prices are determined daily in global wholesale oil markets, to how those markets are connected to prices at the pump." -- Book jacket.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Capital investments
ISBN : UOM:39015082591978

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Capital Formation and Industrial Policy: The impact of energy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : Thomas Princen,Jack P. Manno,Pamela L. Martin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262527330

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Ending the Fossil Fuel Era by Thomas Princen,Jack P. Manno,Pamela L. Martin Pdf

A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway. Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle technology, a carbon market, or lifestyle change. This book shows that it is now possible to take the first step toward the post-fossil fuel era, by resisting the slow violence of extreme extraction and combustion, exiting the industry, and imagining a good life after fossil fuels. It shows how an environmental politics of transition might occur, arguing for going to the source rather than managing byproducts, for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, for engaging a politics of deliberately choosing a post-fossil fuel world. Six case studies reveal how individuals, groups, communities, and an entire country have taken first steps out of the fossil fuel era, with experiments that range from leaving oil under the Amazon to ending mountaintop removal in Appalachia.

Author : Martin Skladany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108415552

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Big Copyright Versus the People by Martin Skladany Pdf

Extreme copyright produces extreme consumption: ten hours a day, lost to screens. This book takes back our culture and creativity.

Author : Ezra Levant
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780771046438

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Ethical Oil by Ezra Levant Pdf

Canada's "no. 1 defender of freedom of speech" and the bestselling author of Shakedown makes the timely and provocative case that when it comes to oil, ethics matter just as much as the economy and the environment. In 2009, Ezra Levant's bestselling book Shakedown revealed the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions and was declared the "most important public affairs book of the year." In Ethical Oil, Levant turns his attention to another hot-button topic: the ethical cost of our addiction to oil. While many North Americans may be aware of the financial and environmental price we pay for a gallon of gas or a barrel of oil, Levant argues that it is time we consider ethical factors as well. With his trademark candor, Levant asks hard-hitting questions: With the oil sands at our disposal, is it ethically responsible to import our oil from the Sudan, Russia, and Mexico? How should we weigh carbon emissions with human rights violations in Saudi Arabia? And assuming that we can't live without oil, can the development of energy be made more environmentally sustainable? In Ethical Oil, Levant exposes the hypocrisy of the West's dealings with the reprehensible regimes from which we purchase the oil that sustains our lifestyles, and offers solutions to this dilemma. Readers at all points on the political spectrum will want to read this timely and provocative new book, which is sure to spark debate.

Author : Christopher Tugendhat,Adrian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015008614607

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Oil by Christopher Tugendhat,Adrian Hamilton Pdf

Author : Edward John Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Corporate divestiture
ISBN : UOM:35128000806065

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Horizontal Divestiture in the Oil Industry by Edward John Mitchell Pdf