The United States of Oil

Tyler Priest is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. He is a widely published scholar of energy and environmental history, with expertise in the history of oil and gas. He is the author of the award-winning book The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in the Postwar United States(Texas A&M, 2007) and a forthcoming book calledOceans of Oil: The Epic Struggles Over Offshore Drilling in the United States.

In 2010, he served as a senior policy analyst on the President’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.  

On Sunday, September 24, at 2:00, Dr. Tyler Priest will be presenting a program called “The United States of Oil” at the English Valleys History Center. He will discuss how, “in the past 100 years, Americans have produced and consumed more oil than any other people on Earth. Indeed, ‘The Age of Oil’ coincided with ‘The American Century’.”

He asks, “How do we make sense of our nation’s past, present, and future relationship with oil, the resource that fueled the global economy, changed the destiny of nations, and now imperils the environmental conditions of our existence?”

The English Valleys History Center is located at 108 N. Main St., North English, Iowa. All are invited to attend this event at no charge. Donations are accepted.