Download or read book Petroleum Man written by Stanley Crawford and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A billionaire sets out to teach his grandchildren some life lessons in this sharply funny novel by “a brilliant, original writer” (Ann Beattie, author of The Accomplished Guest). Bewildered by the odious liberal tendencies of his son-in-law, Chip, Leon Tuggs, self-made arch-capitalist billionaire, inventor of the ubiquitous and environmentally hazardous Thingie, and author of the influential General Theory of Industrial Sex, decides to rescue his grandchildren from a life of guilt, indecision, and existential anxiety, by educating them in the way the world actually works and telling them, for their own good, the things no teacher or parent in our politically correct and morally relative world could ever venture to say . . . Petroleum Man is a hilariously scathing satire that takes on both sides of some of the raging debates of our times between Democrats and Republicans, haves and have-nots, trickle-down conservatives and bleeding-heart liberals, environmentalists and industrialists—a comic classic from the author of Gascoyne and Some Instructions.
Download or read book Oil Man written by Michael Wallis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.
Download or read book Petroleum Man written by Stanley Crawford and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petroleum Man takes Swiftean malice and delight in exposing the vanity and frailty of some of the most popularly held prejudices of our times.
Download or read book Petroleum Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Petroleum written by Chester Garfield Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors analyze, discuss, and give an overview of petroleum resources and the petroleum industry in the United States in the early 20th Century.
Download or read book The Petroleum World written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Petroleum Gazette written by Frank F. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels written by Alex Epstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong? For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation, energy expert Alex Epstein argues in The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We’re taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives—their unique ability to provide cheap, reliable energy for a world of seven billion people. And the moral significance of cheap, reliable energy, Epstein argues, is woefully underrated. Energy is our ability to improve every single aspect of life, whether economic or environmental. If we look at the big picture of fossil fuels compared with the alternatives, the overall impact of using fossil fuels is to make the world a far better place. We are morally obligated to use more fossil fuels for the sake of our economy and our environment. Drawing on original insights and cutting-edge research, Epstein argues that most of what we hear about fossil fuels is a myth. For instance . . . Myth: Fossil fuels are dirty. Truth: The environmental benefits of using fossil fuels far outweigh the risks. Fossil fuels don’t take a naturally clean environment and make it dirty; they take a naturally dirty environment and make it clean. They don’t take a naturally safe climate and make it dangerous; they take a naturally dangerous climate and make it ever safer. Myth: Fossil fuels are unsustainable, so we should strive to use “renewable” solar and wind. Truth: The sun and wind are intermittent, unreliable fuels that always need backup from a reliable source of energy—usually fossil fuels. There are huge amounts of fossil fuels left, and we have plenty of time to find something cheaper. Myth: Fossil fuels are hurting the developing world. Truth: Fossil fuels are the key to improving the quality of life for billions of people in the developing world. If we withhold them, access to clean water plummets, critical medical machines like incubators become impossible to operate, and life expectancy drops significantly. Calls to “get off fossil fuels” are calls to degrade the lives of innocent people who merely want the same opportunities we enjoy in the West. Taking everything into account, including the facts about climate change, Epstein argues that “fossil fuels are easy to misunderstand and demonize, but they are absolutely good to use. And they absolutely need to be championed. . . . Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous—because human life is the standard of value and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.”
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Download or read book Petroleum Man written by Stanley G. Crawford and published by Duckworth Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PETROLEUM MAN is a passionate and hilarious attack on American values and corporate culture, focused on the wisdom of one eccentric man's philosophy and the cars that inspired his greatest ideas. PETROLEUM MAN is a hilariously scathing satire that takes on both sides of some of the raging debates of our times - between democrats and republicans, haves and have-nots, trickle-down conservatives and bleeding-heart liberals. Bewildered by the odious liberal democrat tendencies of his son-in-law Chip, Leon Tuggs - self-made arch-capitalist billionaire, inventor of the ubiquitous and environmentally hazardous Thingie registered], and author of the influential General Theory of Industrial Sex - decides to rescue his grandchildren from a life of guilt, indecision, and existential anxiety by educating them in the way the world actually works. These life lessons are accompanied by gifts of cast-iron replicas of the cars that he has owned, and are juxtaposed with illustrative examples from his own life in cars. invention was conceived, to the 1966 Volvo P-122 Sedan, by which it is demonstrated how to negotiate the ugly menace of anti-trust legislation, to the 1992 Lincoln Town Car Stretch Limousine, the entree to a hysterically charged confrontation between Tuggs and his family, PETROLEUM MAN takes Swiftean malice and delight in exposing the vanity and frailty of some of the most popularly held prejudices of our times.
Download or read book Petroleum A History of the Oil Region of Venango County Pennsylvania written by Samuel J. M. Eaton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book Investigation of the Progress of the War Effort Petroleum investigation March 29 30 31 April 8 15 16 20 21 22 27 June 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 September 27 and October 4 1943 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Cost of Gasoline and Other Petroleum Products written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Manufactures and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Petroleum Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulating Importation of Petroleum and Related Products written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
