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PART ONE A History of an Unreliable Market (and the Bad Policies It Prompted) 1 John D. Rockefeller's Cursed Legacy 3 2 The Age of Gasoline and Oil Imperialism 19 3 The Carve-up of Arabia's Oil 33 4 The Oil Glut of the 1930s 41 5 Cold War Fears and the U.S.-Arabian Link 51 6 The Iran Tragedy and the Seven Sisters" Cartel 63 7 The Golden Age of Oil and Its Limits 77 8 Oil and the Explosion of Arab Nationalism 93 9 The First Oil Shock 103 10 The Second Oil Shock 121 11 The Countershock 133 12 A Storm in the Desert: The First Gulf Crisis 145 13 The Soviet Implosion and the Troubled Caspian E D)orado 155 14 The Collapse of Oil Prices and Industry Megamergers 69 15 The First Oil Crisis of the Twenty-first Centurn 183 PART TWO Misperceptions and Problems Ahead 16 Are We Running Out of Oi? 201 17 The Inner Secrets of Oil 20 18 The Puzzle of Oil Reserves and Production, and ith Quest for Their Control 219 19 The Problems with Oil Quality, Price, and Consumption Trends 233 20 Flawed Forecasts, Foggy Alternaives to Oi 247 21 Arabs, Islam, and the Myth of Oil Secrity 259