“Book Descriptions: At WWII's end, US intelligence agents confiscated thousands of Nazi documents developed by German chemists unlocking the secrets of how oil is formed. When the Nazis took power, Germany had resolved to develop enough synthetic oil to wage war successfully, even without abundant national oil reserves. For decades, these confiscated German documents remained largely ignored in a USA where petro-geologists & petro-chemists were convinced that oil was a fossil fuel created by ancient decaying biological debris. Clearly, US oil companies had no financial interest in explaining to the American people that oil was a natural product made on a continual basis deep in the earth. If there were only so many fossils in geological time, there could only be so much oil. Big oil could then charge more for a finite, rapidly disappearing resource than for a natural, renewable & probably inexhaustible one. Once oil is understood as an abundantly available resource, there's no reason hydrocarbon fuels cannot indefinitely propel the development & production of cheap energy reserves the USA needs to maintain its dominant position in the global economy. The Great Oil Conspiracy, updated with a new chapter, explains how German chemists had cracked the code to synthetic oil & why the US government tries to conceal their findings.” DRIVE