In this final edition, author Gary S. McKinney interestingly delivers the reader into the exciting, wild and fascinating history of the northwestern Pennsylvania oil boom of the late 1800s--the early days of oil discovery in America.
This second edition, even more, brings the importance of the Titusville connection to the hunt for crude.
Looks at the economics of the petroleum industry and traces how crude oil from fields around the world eventually becomes the gasoline for automobiles, in a new edition containing an updated epilogue. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.
Gary McKinney reveals how the many discoveries, inventions, and people involved at the inception of oil drilling in Venango County also helped to develop this area.