Review of 'Blowout' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Maddow writes like she talks, and this is a lively, engaging story of the horrifying, greedy, and corrupt penetration of the oil and gas industry into governments and countries around the world. She describes the preference of companies like ExxonMobil for expanding their business into dictator run countries, where the number of people they have to bribe is small, and the regulations they have to deal with are far fewer, and often non-existent, than in democracies. Because these countries rely on foreign companies to bring in the needed technology for extracting oil and gas resources, they are wide open to corruption. Most of the money they receive stays with corrupt government officials at the top, and many of these countries are among the poorest in the world.
The poverty and corruption encourages terrorism, emigration, and climate degradation. The multinational oil and gas companies prop up and encourage dictatorships around the …
Maddow writes like she talks, and this is a lively, engaging story of the horrifying, greedy, and corrupt penetration of the oil and gas industry into governments and countries around the world. She describes the preference of companies like ExxonMobil for expanding their business into dictator run countries, where the number of people they have to bribe is small, and the regulations they have to deal with are far fewer, and often non-existent, than in democracies. Because these countries rely on foreign companies to bring in the needed technology for extracting oil and gas resources, they are wide open to corruption. Most of the money they receive stays with corrupt government officials at the top, and many of these countries are among the poorest in the world.
The poverty and corruption encourages terrorism, emigration, and climate degradation. The multinational oil and gas companies prop up and encourage dictatorships around the world in the interest of feeding their greed. Great book!