Downstream: The Street Side of Oil

This story is a hybrid genre of sorts, combining creative non-fiction with memoir. Dialogue, anecdotes and oil factoids are interwoven to provide the reader with an action packed, fast paced but smooth read. The chronological form covers two decades of oil tumult involving oil shortages, wild price swings, government mandates prompted by political posturing and a bit of unexpected romance. This book is about Oil Marketing. This true tale follows the path of one young man fresh from the battlefields of Vietnam to the tall towers of major oil marketing, only to be overcome by avarice then cruelly punished by periods of soul-searching and scrambling for economic survival. The surprise ending offers the reader a bit of divine providence.