Smartmoney.com: Esquire Magazine: The Five-Minute Guide: Oil:
by Robert Thompson -- 10/21/05
"IT CAN BE FASHIONED into a Chewbacca action figure or the fuel that propels a stealth B-2 Spirit. One sixth of the world's economy is devoted to exploiting it. Boiled by refineries into a phalanx of hydrocarbon products -- gasoline, diesel, kerosene, you-burn-it-they'll-make-it -- crude oil has set us free. We've employed it to unlock the atom, explore outer space, map the human genome. It's the most potent, important resource ever gifted to mankind. And it's pretty much gone. "
Friday, October 28, 2005
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