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The Price of Oil: Exploring The Hidden Use Of Fossil Fuels And How To Break Our Habit

2016

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Everything you want to know about oil - but never dared ask The Price of Oil explores the way we use oil and the economic and environmental costs of doing so. But it's not full of jargon, conspiracy theories or vitriol. It gives oil and the oil industry the credit they deserve for making our lives historically healthy and wealthy. It also shows we would be wise to use less oil. Nor is it heavy going, readers have commented on its lively, pacey tone, and it explains every bit of terminology in everyday English. It inspires by giving some fabulous examples of people who have just got on with the job of taking oil out of their lives. Come on a tour of our interactions with oil - from the first oil wells to the present day - and just about every use of oil - from industry to bubble bath. I hope you will share my journey into the world of oil I have loved every minute of researching and writing The Price of Oil. I think I have graduated from complete oil novice to oil intermediate and hope you will join me on the same journey. My book celebrates all that we have gained from oil and recognises the costs; it shows that not only should we move on from oil, we can. I have written the book I wish I had found when I first started to think about oil - it would have satisfied my curiosity with a lot less effort.

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