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According to the conventional wisdom, we live in a post-industrial information age. This book, however, paints a different picture: We live in the age of oil. Petroleum fuels and feedstocks are responsible for much of what we take for granted in modern society, from chemical products such as fertilizer and plastics, to the energy that moves people and goods in a global economy. Oil is a nearly perfect fuel: Energy dense, safe to store, easy to transport, and mostly environmentally benign. Most importantly, oil has been cheap and abundant during the past 150 years. In 1998, two respected geologists, Colin Campbell and Jean Laherr

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Earth sciences Geology & the lithosphere

• Full title: First Half of the Age of Oil
• Subtitle: An Exploration of the Work of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrere
• Author: Charles A. S. Hall, Carlos A. Ramírez-Pascualli
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127
• EAN: 9781461460633
• ISBN: 1461460638
• ID: 01428460
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 2292 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. December 2012

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