Energy independence within a decade -- Terrorism: your gas dollars at work (part 1) -- Corrupting Washington: your gas dollars at work (part 2) -- Focus section: Saudi interventions into US policy -- How to destroy OPEC -- Changing the energy trump suit -- The technology to break OPEC's chains...

This book describes the petroleum industry in easy-to-understand language for both the layperson and engineer alike. From the economics of searching for oil and gas, getting it out of the ground, into pipelines, into refineries, and, finally, into your gas tank, this book covers the petroleum...