The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
- ISBN-10
- 0618562117
- ISBN-13
- 9780618562114
- Category
- Energy development
- Pages
- 399
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Paul ROBERTS
Description
The author, a regular contributor to New York Times Magazine and Harper's speculates on the role of oil in dominating the world's economy for the last century and the coming scenario that will result when the well runs dry. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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