Henry Carter Hull

Argues that, despite the recent push for energy independence, the United States must continue buying foreign energy in the future, including crude oil, gasoline, coal, and uranium or risk collapsing the global economy.

Examines America's dependence on foreign oil and the corporate heads that drive it, revealing the more insidious costs of oil and the negative impact the importation and use of oil has on American's health and lifestyle.

"A stunning piece of work -- perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications" (Bill McHibbon, The New York Review of Books ). Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as their only means to industrial success. And the...

Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns, the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empire's demise in 1918, and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies, a close study of this conflict provides two important lessons: 1. The Treaty of Versailles, agreed to by the Western Powers in...