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The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do to Stop It Hardcover – October 7, 2008

by Antonia Juhasz (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
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“Juhasz bravely and expertly exposes the inner workings of an industry and a government riddled with secrets, lies, and deception.”
—Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

 

In the tradition of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Antonia Juhasz’s The Tyranny of Oil offers a chilling exposé of the modern American oil industry and its dire abuse of power. A leading international trade and finance policy expert and the author of The Bush Agenda, Juhasz presents eye-opening truths about a potentially catastrophic global energy crisis that only promises to get much worse in the coming years—and provides possible solutions for meaningful change. Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, calls The Tyranny of Oil “a bold blueprint for ending the madness,” and the Christian Science Monitor tells us, “a good first step toward true energy independence is to read this insightful book.”
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  1. Print length
    480 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    William Morrow
  4. Publication date
    October 7, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1.45 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0061434507
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0061434501
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4.1 out of 5 stars
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Dena
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Must Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2018
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In the lead up to the US invasion of Iraq, I knew that the government was not being straight with the American people. Still, I knew only a fraction of what was going on behind the scenes. This brilliant, accessible book explains how the oil industry has become an ungovernable force for chaos and destruction in the modern world. The author, an energy analyst (and writer for Rolling Stone among others) examines a powerful industry that is a prime mover in US history and a supremely anti-democratic force.

While the book has been described by some mainstream reviewers as "shrill" and "white hot polemic." Daniel Ellsburg describes the book differently “Juhasz bravely and expertly exposes the inner workings of an industry and a government riddled with secrets, lies, and deception.”

This well-researched and documented book is a must read if you are to understand recent and current events in the world.
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Carol Grosser
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars aren't enough--try 10 to 20 stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2009
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This is THE MOST IMPORTANT book written on the subject of energy and society. It should be required reading for all elementary, middle, and high school students. It should be required for all college students. A test should be given on it before any legislator in any state and the US legislature is sworn in.

It clearly shows how rich the monopolistic oil giants are and how much money they have to buy media and politicians. It gives statistics on how little they are actually spending on alternatives. I haven't even finished the book yet. It is a true work of careful research and the true state of the world with respect to energy. It clearly shows how we are all threatened by these monopolies and not just from "foreign" oil. They are investing in recovering all available petroleum sources including all the expensive to get oil--offshore, rocks, and sands--leaving a devastated United States (and anywhere else they get their claws into) with toxic water and air.
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Artem Artunyan
4.0 out of 5 stars Review of oil industry.
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2008
Not a bad starting point if you want to understand the history and current status of "Big Oil". What it lacks in detail and depth it makes up for with historical references and educated opinion. Its a relatively easy read and well worth the time.
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LlamaMama
5.0 out of 5 stars Kept Me Up late at night - Reading!
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2008
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What an engrossing book. I have now bought 3 of them and given them to my grown children to read. This book captured me from the first chapter and held my interest through to the end. Most nights I would lie in bed reading until 1-2 AM and reluctantly turn off the light, only to toss and turn unable to fall asleep because I couldn't turn off my mind to what I was reading in this book. Ms. Juhasz has done an excellent job of educating the reader on the very beginning of the oil industry and bringing us through to the power of oil today. I found all the details of oil power to be disgusting but not surprising. I wish this book could be required reading for every high school and college student. We really need a wake-up call and this book is it.

I highly recommend reading this book if you care about what is going on with climate change, political corruption and wars.
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Ricardo
1.0 out of 5 stars Baloney!
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2014
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Author takes a lot if liberties with the facts and displays great ignorance of the refining business and managing capacity. Ordinary business decisions become conspiratorial in her view.
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Beat
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential read
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2018
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As we transition from oil to the future it is helpful to know where it all started and how things came to be. Even though my brother in law was Director of a major oil company's holding for a term in the middle east I soon learned I didn't know "the half of it" when it came to his field. Fascinating documentation and history. Important, too. I put it up there with "Cod" as required reading.
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R. J. McCabe
3.0 out of 5 stars The book is great... except for
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2010
Reality.

Actually, I COULD have rated this book 5 stars because Juhasz has written an excellent review of the history and current status of the oil industry.

Insightful, and lucid, she presents a compelling case against 'Big Oil'. And she reminds us (repeatedly) that anti-monopoly regulations are less about the ability to control prices and MOSTLY about keeping political power out of the hands of a few monopolists who will pay to continue to make as much money as possible, damn the external impacts. Perhaps the Supreme Court justices should have been made aware of this minor fact when the voted to permit unlimited corporate spending on political TV ads a few months back. Frighteningly stupid IMO.

So why didn't I rate it 5 stars?

Because her solutions revolved around the implied assumption that if we limit Big Oil's ability to provide this (currently) vital commodity, we will reduce our CONSUMPTION of oil. Not true. WE THE PEOPLE are a major contributor to the problem. We have the power to DEMAND alternatives that don't use oil, but we don't. Bashing Big Oil is nice (and rarely incorrect), but we need to look in the mirror and ask if we've really TRIED to demand something other than the STATUS QUO. Thought not.
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C. K. Reasor
5.0 out of 5 stars Our Government Failure
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013
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The writer has done an excellent job pointing the failures of our current government to keep the balance between industry and the people. She very well shows how our government has been bought and paid for by the giant Oil companies and the failure of the US to prevent the monopolies from forming again by ignoring the anti-trust laws. A must read for anybody who cares about the future of America.
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Warwick
5.0 out of 5 stars Those f*!#eta are killings us all!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2022
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Really important book to help realise how we are all being actively murdered by some really evil people at the steering wheel of the all-powerful and all-corrupt mega-complex of Big Oil. Any person who gives their time to these corporations belongs behind bars.
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David Wang
4.0 out of 5 stars A good and big picture about current oil industry
Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2013
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I am very impressed by the comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the oil industry and business. I got a lot of background and information about it. But since it is talking about the global oil industry, my background is not good enough to comment right away, I will write a detailed review some time later. But the author gave a clear points that the Big Oil Companies are really powerful and greedy. I am suprised to find out that ICE is owned by BP, Shell, Tatal, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs... thanks for the author.

If you remember, ICE is the secret and quiet buyer of NYSE. But not a lot public informaiton can be found either from the reports or from the internet.

One of the best book about oil industry.
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