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In The Empty Tank, Jeremy Leggett, an internationally renowned geologist and energy entrepreneur who spent the 1980s working for Big Oil, sounds the alarm about an unprecedented crisis. The oil topping point–the day half of all the world's oil is used up–will be reached, by many calculations, sometime soon. In fact, it may already be upon us. When the financial markets realize what's happening, an economic crash and soaring energy prices will result. The entire global marketplace we all inhabit will crack and crumble.Oil companies and governments don't want you to know this. They have been covering up depletion, while stoking addiction and holding back alternatives. Leggett shows how major energy producers have been exposed providing false information about climate change and underground reserves. He describes how governments collude with private enterprise and one another to keep the global economy hooked on oil. And he explains the science behind oil extraction, demonstrating with unimpeachable expertise why the well is indeed running dry a lot faster than we think.Written with verve and eloquence, The Empty Tank explains how we became addicted to oil and why that addiction is le

Who reads The Empty Tank : Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe?

Author

Jeremy K Leggett

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400065271

Category

science

Subjects

Political Science, Business, Economics

Rating

3.61 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14