In her new book, “Blowout,” MSNBC host and part-time Valley resident Rachel Maddow observes that oil and natural gas are necessary evils that underpin the basic framework of the modern world. Some call it “black gold.” Another term is “Texas Tea.”Īnd a co-founder of OPEC, Venezuelan diplomat Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, reportedly once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” Photo by Keith Srakocic/Gazette file photo Photo by Olivier Dauliery/Abaca Press/TNSĪ Pennsylvania gas drilling site in 2012.
secretary of state, has been an unapologetic advocate of drilling for oil and gas anywhere a profit can be made, Maddow writes. Rex Tillerson, head of ExxonMobil and former U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin is a corrupt autocrat, Maddow writes, who has used his country’s oil and gas wealth primarily to enrich himself and his cronies. “Blowout” revisits one of the worst oil spills in history, following the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon platfrom in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Maddow says one of the founders of OPEC, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” Maddow says one of the founders of OPEC, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” MSNBC host and part-time Valley resident Rachel Maddow offers a scathing look at the oil and gas industry in her new book, “Blowout.” Photo by NBCUniversal Media, LLC
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