Greg Palast blasts big oil and their tremendous negative impact on society

Jamie Logan
   Greg Palast is one of the premier writers on inequality and the corruptive nature of government and private industry working together to ensure this capitalist system stays put instead of being kaput by an angry populace. The journalists excellent book called "Vultures Picnic" examines the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil disaster and in this book Palast uncovers many problems with how elites fuse together to basically screw over society and try to cut regulatory costs so more money can be in their pockets at the end of the day and they can share with the political nobility nepotistic dynasties running western countries. palest travels the world seeking clues and answers how the banks, energy companies, and governments collude to commit fraud and a coup d'état of our democracy so they can extract more oil I regions and use it to power their interests and support lobbyists to lower their costs and responsibilities for environmental disasters. Palast looks at British petroleum's Azerbaijan oil country and how the corruptive nature of this "independent" country from the former soviet Union reverberates down to all parts of the energy industry. Palast covers many stories since 2010 in the energy global arena and reports to the reader the depth these plutocrats will go to seize Eskimo resources or ensure nuclear reactors don't fulfill safety requirements and regular maintenance check ups. This book can be a bit confusing to read at times as he hops around all over the place and it is not divided up in traditional chapters. Palast also informs people how Louisiana's coastline is being sucked up from under the feet of its depressed population and how it lead to an even greater hurricane disaster when new Orleans was basically destroyed lacking the trees and other brush cover to slow down hurricane winds. Greg Palast is a great old-time type reporter that the news media doesn't want most being owned by big corporations and this is the best book that looks critically at the oil industry that has come out in recent years.