Special Programming
The Hunt for Oil: Risks and Rewards
An Earth Day special that coincides with the two-year anniversary of the April 20 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the worst in US History. Hosted by Alex Chadwick.
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Host Alex Chadwick tackles one of the most important energy questions facing America: Are we running out of oil? In an effort to understand what's at stake, Chadwick travels to some of the country's most important petroleum exploration sites. What is oil? How can you find it? How is it extracted, refined, transported and utilized? Could we get along without it? What goes into pricing a gallon of gas at the pump?
This program is part of a series on energy called BURN: An Energy Journal.