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what did most to influence perceptions of the region was the discovery of gold in 1979 at a farm in the Serra Pelada about 30 miles east of Carajás and 55 miles south-west of Marabá, a town which had grown rapidly around a nexus of new highways. Just a few months later in January 1980 gold prices surged to a record high of $850 an ounce. Investors

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NOTE: Retail price per gallon is the average in the United States from 2015 to 2018. Zero-carbon is current estimated price.

The discovery in 1969 of what turned out to be gargantuan oil reserves in Norway’s North Sea territories has shaped contemporary Norwegian society more than any other single factor—for the better but also, as we shall hear, for the worse. This black gold touches every Norwegian’s life, pretty much every day. The success of modern Norway—of its welf

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Annual use of these compounds now surpasses 120 megatons (for comparison, global output of all edible oils, from olive to soybean, is now about 200 megatons a year), and because the available alternatives—synthetic lubricants made from simpler, but still often oil-based, compounds rather than those derived directly from crude oil—are more expensive