Oil on the Edge
Author: Robert Gramling
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780791426944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebate, puts it in perspective, and explores the prospects for future development. It traces the factors that led to the ascendancy of oil as an energy source, the emergence of the technology that made undersea extraction possible, the political forces that led to the dramatic offshore boom in the Gulf of Mexico, and the national policies that eventually produced the closing of virtually all offshore federal lands to the agency created within the Department of Interior.