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Margonelli, Lisa. Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline.(Brief article)(Book review)
Margonelli, Lisa. Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline. Nan A. Talese: Doubleday. Feb. 2007. index. ISBN 0-385-51145-0 [ISBN 978-0-385-51145-2]. $26. SCI
Freelance writer Margonelli spent three years and traveled 100,000 miles starting at a California gas station/convenience store, then an oil refinery, oil fields in Texas, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and oil fields in Venezuela, Chad, Iran, Nigeria, and China to write this book, which focuses on how crude oil from fields throughout the world becomes gasoline for our automobiles. Most of her text is made up of conversations with people in and around the oil industry, …
