Awful Library Books

Flowing Gold
The Romance of Oil
Floherty
1957

This book seems to be written with the cooperation of the oil industry, specifically Standard Oil.  There are lots of pictures of impressive refineries and pumps. There is nothing about environmental issues. Oil is good. Pipelines are good. Drilling everywhere and anywhere is good. Oil = Freedom.

I wonder if Mr. Floherty would still think this is romantic after the Exxon Valdez disaster or BP’s Gulf oil spill?

Mary