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Petroleum

Bakken Business

by Richard Manning,

The price of North Dakota's fracking boom

A lard bargain

Translated by Dan Keane,

Oil

Art by Lee Stoetzel,

After oil

by Rick Bass,

Untitled

by Bill Dolce, Steve Dolce,

Oil in abundance

by Jude Wanniski,

Without taxes or synthetic fuel

The Gulf South at mid-morning

by Eric Larrabee,

Gambling with Mother Earth

by William G. (William Gunn) Shepherd,

Her choice

by Harper’s Staff,

A lampful of oil

by George Rutledge Gibson,

Editor’s drawer