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Learn how oil fuels both politics and history!
You’re no idiot, of course. Just thinking about life without oil to heat your home gives you the chills. But when it comes to understanding the politics involved in getting it, you feel like your brain is running empty.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the Politics of Oil helps you understand why we go to war over oil. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get:
• Compelling insights into how the discovery of oil in the Arabian Peninsula 50 years ago changed the global political landscape.
• The relationship between so-called “Big Oil” and US energy, environmental, and national security policy—as well as prices at the pump.
• Easy-to-understand explanations of what can be done to prevent oil spills and blowouts, how such accidents are cleaned up, and who pays for them.
You’re no idiot, of course. Just thinking about life without oil to heat your home gives you the chills. But when it comes to understanding the politics involved in getting it, you feel like your brain is running empty.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the Politics of Oil helps you understand why we go to war over oil. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get:
• Compelling insights into how the discovery of oil in the Arabian Peninsula 50 years ago changed the global political landscape.
• The relationship between so-called “Big Oil” and US energy, environmental, and national security policy—as well as prices at the pump.
• Easy-to-understand explanations of what can be done to prevent oil spills and blowouts, how such accidents are cleaned up, and who pays for them.
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About the author
Lita Epstein, MBA, is a seasoned financial writer who develops online courses about investing for retirement and finance and investing for women. A former congressional press secretary, she has extensive knowledge of the process within the agencies in Washington. She is the author of Alpha Teach Yourself Retirement Planning in 24 Hours and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Supreme Court.
C.D. Jaco was a Middle Eastern correspondent for CNN during Operation Desert Storm. He has covered virtually every war, skirmish, or military action from gang wars in Los Angeles to conflicts in Angola to the taking of General Noriega of Panama. His articles have appeared in such publications as Esquire, Rolling Stone, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Jaco is also the author of two novels, Dead Air and Live Shot.
Julianne C. Iwersen-Neimann is a senior vice president of Research and Portfolio Management at R. T. Jones Capital Equities, where her specialty is gas and oil investments. She is a coauthor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil.
C.D. Jaco was a Middle Eastern correspondent for CNN during Operation Desert Storm. He has covered virtually every war, skirmish, or military action from gang wars in Los Angeles to conflicts in Angola to the taking of General Noriega of Panama. His articles have appeared in such publications as Esquire, Rolling Stone, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Jaco is also the author of two novels, Dead Air and Live Shot.
Julianne C. Iwersen-Neimann is a senior vice president of Research and Portfolio Management at R. T. Jones Capital Equities, where her specialty is gas and oil investments. She is a coauthor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil.
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