HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pipeline Transport, Bakelite, Carl Barks
9 Dec 2016
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Lecture 19 oil: politics of the pipeline 11/04/2016. Before wwi, the british navy switches from coal-powered steam ships to oil-powered ships (1912-1914) British have a lot of coal but zero oil reserves (more efficient to depend on oil) British depends on middle eastern oil: history of the 20th century is a number of oil-dependent processes going (cars, tractors, and planes in the interwar period) When we talked about coal, really talking about britain (coal tech comes from here) but when we talk about oil, really talking about the us (oil tech comes from here) Marshall plan aid includes subsidies for oil refineries, road building, car manufacturing, and conversion of plants to oil makes european economies oil-based. What are the politics of the oil pipeline: oil is extracted via wells (at least, at first) and transported via pipes. Infrastructure to access and use oil is easier to build (wwii workers built a 1650 mile road to.
