Oil, Giant Problem
See great photos by Edward Burtynsky here.
Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation
His photographs of quarries, factories, mining pits, and railcuts are extraordinary for their depiction of mankind’s organization of the land for resource-extraction and profit.
Crude: The Story of Oil, Sonia Shah 2004
This 175 page book is a condensed look at oil, its history and future. It is packed with fact and detail and doesn’t miss much.
Unholy Trinity (Big Oil Big Auto Big Tire), the Presidents, and the American Consumer
Oil, Auto, and Tire have for more than a century marketed ever larger, more expensive, gas guzzling, unsafe, products to a willing American public. In 1930 they banded together to take over and eliminate electric streetcars from American cities. Once in control, they removed the rails to be sure streetcars would never return. In 1947 GM, Standard, and Firestone were convicted of collusion to remove streetcars and fined $10,000 collectively.
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