Oil

This book will tell you how oil is extracted from underground and underwater, and will take you to unusual cities — a production platform and an oil refinery. It will show you how a gas station and a car engine work. You will learn why an airplane and a rocket fly, what a boiler room and a ship eat, and why pigs are needed at a motor oil plant. You will understand the dangers that oil extraction poses to the health of our planet and how to avoid them. Oil is called black gold because everything around us is made of it today — from gasoline in an engine to chewing gum and aspirin. How can this be? All the answers are here!