Crisis in the Oil Patch: How America's Energy Industry Is Being Destroyed and What Must Be Done to Save It

Crisis in the Oil Patch combines the knowledge and experience of former Secretary of Energy Donald Paul Hodel and Dallas business writer Robert Deitz to show how our government has forced American dependence on foreign energy to dangerous levels. Using stories of people whose lives have been overturned by the decline of the U.S. industry, and startling statistics and public policy discussions, the authors detail a stripped industry that has seen ten times the job losses of the auto industry, but none of the public sympathy.