Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank
“If you drive a car, you must read this book.” —Mary Roach, author ofStiff“By giving voice to the people who are the links in the global oil chain, Margonelli invites us to leapfrog all the rhetoric, dry statistics, and dire pronouncements about oil in order to truly understand it.” —Fast Company“Hugely enjoyable, compulsively readable, and brilliantly reported.” —Po Bronson, author ofWhat Should I Do with My Life?“From the corner gas station to the oil fields of Nigeria, there couldn't be a better traveling companion than Margonelli. She's fast, fearless, funny, and a brilliant observer."—Barbara Ehrenreich, author ofNickel and Dimed