The age of oil : the mythology, history, and future of the world's most controversial resource

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John D. Rockefeller's cursed legacy

The age of gasoline and oil imperialism

The carve-up of Arabia's oil

The oil glut of the 1930s

Cold War fears and the U.S.-Arabian link

The Iran tragedy and the "seven sisters" cartel

The golden age of oil and its limits

Oil and the explosion of Arab nationalism

The first oil shock

The second oil shock

The countershock

A storm in the desert : the first gulf crisis

The Soviet implosion and the troubled Caspian El Dorado

The collapse of oil prices and industry megamergers

The first oil crisis of the twenty-first century

Are we running out of oil?

The inner secrets of oil

The puzzle of oil reserves and production, and the quest for their control

The problems with oil quality, price, and consumption trends

Flawed forecasts, foggy alternatives to oil

Arabs, Islam, and the myth of oil security

Appendixes. 1. Proven reserves, production, and reserves life index of the first twenty oil countries in the world and world totals (2004) ; 2. Consumption trends of the first twenty countries in the world (1980-2004) ; 3. Main features of some qualities of crude oil ; 4. The largest national oil companies ; 5. The largest international oil companies