Research Book Post #3- The Future of Oil- Sanjay Patel- Pages 80-100

     This section of the book consists of chapter 3, 4, and 5. Chapter 3 and 4 are more back-round chapters on Canadian oil sands. Patel stresses that the base knowledge of this topic is critical to understanding the more complicated aspects of it. The second half of chapter 3 talks about the first commercial oil sand plant and the history behind how it came to be. Chapter 4 covers what oil sands are and where they are located. The end of chapter 4 also covered how oil sand are produced. Chapter 5 begins talking about the toll oil takes on the environment. This includes Green House Gas emissions (GHG) and climate change. Patel gives a good amount of information on climate change because it plays such a big role in this topic.