Peter Maass writes for ForeignPolicy.com:
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession.Across the globe, oil is invoked as an agent of destiny. Oil will make you rich, oil will make you poor, oil will bring war, oil will deliver peace, oil will shape our world as much as the glaciers did in the Ice Age.
But how?
