A journalist, and former roughneck, considers our long, complex, tortured relationship with oil. Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and it is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments--in some cases, effectively become the government. In On Oil, Don Gillmor, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs...