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Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
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February 2014
On Sale: January 29, 2014
ISBN: 0148247512
EAN: 2940148247517
Kindle: B00I7DSONM
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A ROLLICKING STORY ABOUT LIFE ALONG THE CONTROVERSIAL
KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE, BY THE PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR
OF "CONFEDERATES IN THE ATTIC" In this lively story, evocative of bestselling road-trip
classics such as William Least Heat Moon’s “Blue Highways”
and Bill Bryson’s “The Lost Continent,” Pulitzer
Prize–winning author Tony Horwitz takes an epic journey
along one of the most hotly debated stretches of land in
North America: the route of the proposed Keystone XL
Pipeline. Armed with maps and cheerful curiosity, he travels
from the oil-drunk boomtown of Fort McMurray, Alberta
(a.k.a. Fort McMoney), down through the plains and prairie
of the United States, where mountains of pipe lie in wait
for the torrent of crude that could soon flow if the White
House approves the controversial plan to turn on the spigots
that will deliver oil from Canada directly to the Gulf of
Mexico. Along the way, Horwitz meets a cavalcade of characters,
including ranchers who either love or loathe the idea of oil
flowing beneath their land, “rig pigs” and “cement heads”
who are eager to make a buck in the tar sands, and strippers
and other local entrepreneurs who are ready to help them
spend it. He drives miles of lonesome road in his quest to
understand what this pipeline means to everyone
involved—from Native Americans to environmentalists to
industry bureaucrats. He sees firsthand not only how an oil
spill can devastate acres of rich farmland, but how
opportunity in the oil patch can enrich lives and towns.
Over homemade farm dinners and countless tavern beers,
Horwitz realizes that the questions surrounding the XL
debate go beyond pat declarations about independence from
foreign oil or the damage wrought by one pipeline. They go
to the heart of an energy revolution that is transforming
North America, with enormous consequences for its economy,
environment, and foreign policy.
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