THE TYRANNY OF OIL The World's Most Powerful Industry -- and What We Must Do to Stop It By Antonia Juhasz Morrow. 468 pp. $26.95 Big Oil -- the half-dozen biggest publicly traded energy producers on Earth -- has spent more than a century ravaging the planet. War, pollution and human rights abuses have followed where ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP have gone. The companies are all-powerful when they choose to be, and with the aim of remaining so, are working to block technology that would benefit all of mankind: clean energy. Lest their abominable behavior go on, a ... (more)