{"id":40999,"date":"2018-11-27T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40999"},"modified":"2018-11-27T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:28:55","slug":"foreword-to-oil-power-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40999","title":{"rendered":"Foreword to\u00a0Oil, Power and War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This month&#8217;s Museletter is my Foreword to Matthieu Auzanneau&#8217;s excellent new book<\/em>\u00a0Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History<em>\u00a0published by Chelsea Green Publishing. For information on where to get hold of a copy see the links at the end.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/richardheinberg.com\/museletter-318-oil-power-and-war\">Foreword to\u00a0<em>Oil, Power and War<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Come and listen to my story \u2019bout a man named Jed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A poor mountaineer barely kep\u2019 his fam\u2019ly fed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And then one day he was shootin\u2019 at some food<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And up through the ground come a-bubblin\u2019 crude.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well the first thing you know old Jed\u2019s a millionaire.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The kinfolk said, \u201cJed, move away from there.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>They said, \u201cCaliforny is the place you ought to be,\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hills, that is. Swimming pools. Movie stars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Paul Henning)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most instantly recallable verse on the subject of petroleum, the theme-song lyric to the hit 1960s television series \u201cThe Beverly Hillbillies\u201d tells a tale of sudden wealth. It is a perfect touchstone for the real story of humanity\u2019s experience with liquid hydrocarbons.<\/p>\n<p>In the real story, riches consisted both of the billions accumulated by the great magnates of the petroleum industry\u2014including John D. Rockefeller, J. Paul Getty, H. L. Hunt, and Charles and David Koch\u2014and also the quickly growing economic output of industrial civilization once it came to be fueled by oil. This novel source of energy spawned entire new industries\u2014notably the automotive, aviation, and plastics industries\u2014while revolutionizing existing ones (agriculture, forestry, fishing, shipping, manufacturing, lubricants, chemicals, paints, dyes, cosmetics, road paving, and pharmaceuticals). It propelled humanity into an age of mobility and rising expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s Museletter is my Foreword to Matthieu Auzanneau&#8217;s excellent new book\u00a0Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History\u00a0published by Chelsea Green Publishing. For information on where to get hold of a copy see the links at the end. Foreword to\u00a0Oil, Power and War Come and listen to my story \u2019bout a man named Jed A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[23236,22934,588,23235,643,1081,862],"class_list":["post-40999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-book-forward","tag-matthieu-auzanneau","tag-oil","tag-oil-power-and-war","tag-power","tag-richard-heinberg","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41000,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40999\/revisions\/41000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}