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Bibliographic Essay* Prologue The description of oil’s “journey” from well to automobile was based on conversations with oil company personnel and a number of documents describing and analyzing different stages of the oil supply chain. In general, see Lisa Margonelli, Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank (Louisville, KY: Broadway Press, 2008), which provides a nice overview of the whole supply chain; Martin Middlewood, “How Oil Industry Supply Chains Drive Gas Pump Prices,” CRM Buyer, July 5, 2004, http://www.linuxinsider. com/story/34919.html, which discusses the business objectives influencing how oil companies structure their supply chains; Paul Y. Cheng, Mansi Singhal, Saurabh Bharat, Cheng Khoo, and Lucy Haskins, Global Oil Choke Points: How Vulnerable Is the Global Oil Market? (New York: Lehman Brothers, 2008), http://www .deepgreencrystals.com/images/GlobalOilChokePoints.pdf, which provides an overview of potential supply disruptions at each stage of the journey; Dara O’Rourke and Sarah Connolly, “Just Oil? The Distribution of Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Production and Consumption,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 28 (2003): 587–617, discussing the environmental, social, and health impacts of the oil extraction, transportation, and refining process as well as the regulations relating to each; and Alejandro Granado, Chairman, President, and CEO, CITGO Petroleum Co., “Speech at the Global Refining Strategies Summit 2007: A New Era for Refining,” September 10–11, 2007, http://www.citgo.com/WebOther/ speeches/PresentationGranado070910GlobalRefiningSummit.pdf, providing an overview of the economics and market structure of global oil refining. For the sources of U.S. oil, see Energy Information Administration, “U.S. Imports by Country of Origin,” available at http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move _impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_m.htm. On the export of Saudi oil from the Ghawar and Ras Tanura, in particular, see Peter Maas, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil (New York: Knopf, 2009), 9–25. Maas is also the source of the insight that, barring spills or accidents, “no human eyes” see the oil during the entire course of its journey (15). On oil shipments from Saudi Arabia and other countries to the United States, see Alaric Nightingale, “Ship Owners Forced to Pay to Carry Middle * Unless otherwise noted, all Web addresses cited in this bibliographic essay were last visited in August or September 2010. 280 Bibliographic Essay East Oil,” Bloomberg, May 8, 2009, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=new sarchive&sid=ahGIAd6WPfeo&refer=commodities. There has been much global newspaper coverage revealing the dangers posed by pirates to shipping of oil. See, for example, “Somali Pirates Wreak Havoc along Key Shipping Route,” Xinhua, November 19, 2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/ english/2008-11/19/content_10382529.htm; Jen DeGregorio, “Tanker Seized by Pirates Bound for Louisiana Offshore Oil Port,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 30, 2009, http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2009/11/tanker _seized_by_pirates_bound.html; Dunstan Prial, “Pirates Becoming a Big Problem for Oil Supply,” Fox Business, November 18, 2008, http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/ markets/commodities/pirates-big-problem-oil-supply. See also Mark Mazzetti and Sharon Otterman, “U.S. Captain Is Hostage of Pirates; Navy Ship Arrives,” New York Times, April 8, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/world/africa/09pirates .html?ref=richard_phillips. For discussions of the oil supply chain within the United States, the best source is Marathon Petroleum Company’s interactive online tool, “The Time It Takes,” available at http://www.mapllc.com/the_time_it_takes. For more information on the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), in particular, see Energy Information Administration , State Energy Profiles, Louisiana, http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy _profiles.cfm?sid=LA (describing the LOOP as the “only port in the United States capable of accommodating deepdraft tankers”). See also Katherine Schmidt, “Less Foreign Oil Coming through Louisiana Offshore Oil Port,” Houmatoday.com, Dec. 20, 2009, http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20091220/ARTICLES/912209979; Jen DeGregorio, “Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Is Well Positioned Because of Dependence on Foreign Energy,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, May 24, 2009, http://blog .nola.com/tpmoney/2009/05/louisiana_offshore_oil_port_is.html. For further discussion of the logistics and regulation of pipelines within the United States once oil is offloaded, see Cheryl J. Trench, How Pipelines Make the Oil Market Work—Their Networks, Operation and Regulation (Dallas: Allegro Energy Group, 2001). Chapter 1 For an introduction to U.S. economic policy in the 1970s, a good place to start is chapters 5 and 6 of Herbert Stein’s...

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