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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
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“At a single stroke,” crowed Richfield’s boosters, Project Oilsand could “double the world’s petroleum reserves.”
John Vaillant • Fire Weather
The unknown realities of drilling for shale gas seemed preferable to the familiar toll coal mining levied.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
As Chapter 7 shows, fracking, for all its environmental downsides, has largely liberated America from the dangers of being dependent on a static yet declining industry.
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
In what will continue to be a durable equilibrium between price, availability, perception of scarcity, and energy efficiency, prices fell and stabilized.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
In April, we returned to the theme in a piece titled “Generational Arbitrage.” As the name implies, a historic price disparity had broken out between the two fuels in North America. This was driven by global oil prices being held artificially high by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the fact that marginal oil product
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