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Crude Politics
2004,2005
Overview
Energy shortages, climate change, and the debate over national security have thrust oil policy to the forefront of American politics. How did Americans grow so dependent on petroleum, and what can we learn from our history that will help us craft successful policies for the future? In this timely and absorbing book, Paul Sabin challenges us to see politics and law as crucial forces behind the dramatic growth of the U.S. oil market during the twentieth century. Using pre-World War II California as a case study of oil production and consumption, Sabin demonstrates how struggles in the legislature and courts over property rights, regulatory law, and public investment determined the shape of the state's petroleum landscape. Sabin provides a powerful corrective to the enduring myth of \"free markets\" by demonstrating how political decisions affected the institutions that underlie California's oil economy and how the oil market and price structure depend significantly on the ways in which policy questions were answered before World War II. His concise and probing analysis casts fresh light on the historical relationship between business and government and on the origins of contemporary problems such as climate change and urban sprawl. Incisive, engaging, and meticulously researched,Crude Politicsilluminates an important chapter in U.S. environmental, legal, business, and political history and the history of the American West.
Publisher
University of California Press,Univ. of California Press
Subject
/ energy
/ Energy policy - United States - History - 20th century
/ frontier
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / United States / General
/ HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
/ NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
/ Petroleum industry and trade
/ Petroleum industry and trade -- Government policy -- California -- History -- 20th century
/ Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- California -- History -- 20th century
/ U.S.A
/ Ölmarkt
ISBN
0520241983, 9780520241985, 0520931149, 9780520931145
