| September 27, 2004 |
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PBS: Extreme Oil
It's  not just a high price at the pump. It's in our clothes, CDs, painkillers, and plastic. Oil is everywhere -- fueling modern life. So unless you live in a cardboard box, you are a consumer of black gold. And when the "easy oil" floodgates close forever, what extremes will we go to to drill in uncharted terrain? To better understand our predicament, follow the BTC pipeline's winding geographic and political route from the Caspian through to the global market. Then dig into oil's dark past to uncover how fossil fuels first formed, when we learned to tap it, and how crude became a commodity. Like it or not, oil is the lifeblood that feeds our appetite for consumption. Before it all goes away, we have critical issues to tackle. (in Science) |
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