Can "green petroleum" reverse global warming and bring down high
gasoline prices? Written in non-technical language for the layperson,
this book investigates and details how the oil and gas industry can "go
green" with new processes and technologies, thus bringing the world's
most important industry closer to environmental and economic
sustainability.
This book unravels the mysteries of the current energy crisis and argues
that solutions to global warming will come only from the development of
new technologies. Discussed here are the reasons why petroleum
operations, as they are now, are not sustainable; how each practice
treads an inherently implosive path; and how each spells irreversible
damage to the planet's ecosystem. Fossil fuel consumption is not the
culprit; rather, the practices involved, from exploration to refining
and processing, are responsible for the current damage to the
environment.