Blood of the earth : the battle for the world's vanishing oil resources
Blood of the earth : the battle for the world's vanishing oil resources
- New Delhi Penguin Books 2008
- xlv, 424 pages : illustrations, maps 20 cm; Pbk
Gratis Received from our Chairman IFMR - Mr. Seshasayee
'It's all about the oil. What is? Pretty much everything, in Hiro's encyclopaedic yet racily readable account of the economy, science and geopolitics of oil over the past century ... The text is spiced with flavoursome tableaux of first-hand reporting, from Azerbaijan to New York City. It will annoy some readers, and refresh others, that Hiro doesn't make any artificial attempt at "balance". He robustly defends Hugo Chavez, who has irritated the US no end in recent years, and gleefully writes subheadings such as "Rice's Astonishing Ignorance" to recount how Condi, a former director of Chevron, claimed in 2006 to be amazed at how the politics of energy was "warping diplomacy around the world". In the face of global warming, he argues finally, we have no choice but to embrace all alternative energy sources at once.' Steven Poole.
978-
Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects
Petroleum industry and trade--Government policy
World politics--Forecasting
333.8232 HIR
Gratis Received from our Chairman IFMR - Mr. Seshasayee
'It's all about the oil. What is? Pretty much everything, in Hiro's encyclopaedic yet racily readable account of the economy, science and geopolitics of oil over the past century ... The text is spiced with flavoursome tableaux of first-hand reporting, from Azerbaijan to New York City. It will annoy some readers, and refresh others, that Hiro doesn't make any artificial attempt at "balance". He robustly defends Hugo Chavez, who has irritated the US no end in recent years, and gleefully writes subheadings such as "Rice's Astonishing Ignorance" to recount how Condi, a former director of Chevron, claimed in 2006 to be amazed at how the politics of energy was "warping diplomacy around the world". In the face of global warming, he argues finally, we have no choice but to embrace all alternative energy sources at once.' Steven Poole.
978-
Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects
Petroleum industry and trade--Government policy
World politics--Forecasting
333.8232 HIR