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Blowout maddow review6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Its bad actors, its ‘colorful’ characters, the political corruption it has long engendered, and the ugly black messes it so gleefully makes and leaves in its wake wherever it travels. Thus unlike most readers, I already knew quite a lot about that state’s contributions to the industry. Confession here: I spent my teen years in Oklahoma, when a gallon of gasoline for my Volkswagen bug cost all of 19.9¢, and still have family ties to the state. ![]() It takes us on a grand, in-depth tour of the American oil and gas industry from its beginnings in the mid-1800s all the way to today, where interesting and insidious international wheeling and dealing by a more familiar cast of characters helps to explain the current state of world tensions as well as why it’s so much harder than it should be to confront head-on the worsening climate change situation that threatens all of us well into the future.įor fans of Maddow’s reporting style on MSNBC, there is a wealth of knowledge to be gained about things we may never have been interested in knowing before. That means it’s dense and scholarly in the good doctor’s inimitable way, including long histories, seemingly divergent facts and associations, and a parade of villains a majority of people never heard of. Rachel Maddow’s new book Blowout isn’t so long (at a mere 367 hardcover pages sans notes and index) that it looks daunting to the interested reader. ![]()
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