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Crude Ambition is an audio deep dive into the raw power of energy. They call it the industry of industries where most people see a gas station while we see the most high stakes and ruthless game of chess ever played. This is the story of the genius and the greed and the unapologetic reality of the hydrocarbon age as we deconstruct the monopolies that built empires along with the geopolitics that start wars and the industrial titans who realized early on that if you own the energy you own the future. We do not deal in sanitized narratives or green fairy tales but instead focus on energy realism
By Seven Media hosts Crude Ambition: This is the story of power, a history show with 37 episodes published.
The Cold War is over, oil is cheap, and everyone thinks energy crises are history. Then at 2 a.m. on August 2nd, 1990, a hundred thousand Iraqi troops roll into Kuwait and shatter the illusion. This is the episode where
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Saudi Arabia has had enough. This is the episode where the kingdom's oil revenues collapse from $119 billion to $26 billion, quota cheating tears OPEC apart, and the Saudis finally stop propping up the price and threaten
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The greatest oil boom in history ends with a billion-dollar shale project killed overnight and Colorado ghost towns sprouting weeds. This is the episode where the fever of thirty-four-dollar oil gives way to glut, conser
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"We're going down" are the last words from inside the American embassy before the line goes dead. This is the episode where Iranian militants storm the compound, take fifty Americans hostage for 444 days, and the second
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A single newspaper article mocking an exiled cleric sets Iran on fire. This is the episode where Ayatollah Khomeini's followers turn mourning into revolution, the Shah's regime crumbles in a relentless cycle of protest a
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Cheap oil is dead, and the industrial world has to figure out how to survive without it. This is the episode where Japan reinvents its entire economy around conservation, France sends inspectors with thermometers into ba
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A building in Vienna quietly changes its nickname from "the Texaco Building" to "the OPEC Building," and that says everything. This is the episode where the oil exporters go from bit players to masters of the global econ
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The embargo hits and the world loses its mind. This is the episode where oil prices explode 600 percent, panicked buyers bid against each other like their survival depends on it, and the age of cheap energy dies in a mat
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On the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, 222 Egyptian jets scream across the Suez Canal and the world changes overnight. This is the episode where the 1973 October War unleashes the Arab oil embargo, America discovers
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The Shah throws a $200 million party at the ruins of Persepolis, and it's not just a celebration. It's a declaration. This is the episode where Britain abandons the Persian Gulf, America's surplus oil vanishes for good,
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Oil didn't just fuel the postwar world. It remade it entirely. This is the episode where coal loses its throne, oil consumption explodes five and a half times over in two decades, and an entirely new civilization built o
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One man's arrogance lit the fuse that changed the oil world forever. This is the episode where a stubborn Jersey Standard chairman ignores every warning and slashes oil prices without telling a single producing nation, t
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The most powerful cartel in history was born because one executive cut prices without making a single phone call. This is the episode where a Venezuelan exile eating sardine sandwiches in the Library of Congress reverse-
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Two fading empires launch a secret war to save themselves - and an American president destroys them with a phone call and a currency threat. This is the episode where a drugged-up British prime minister mistakes an Egypt
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A 70-year-old prime minister governs from his bed in pajamas, fake-faints in parliament with a wink, and tells an American diplomat that a fox's tail is longer than its body. This is the episode where one Scottish accoun
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A Saudi king discovers his American oil tenants are paying more to the IRS than to his own treasury. A Texas welder fixes a palace toilet and accidentally wins a multi-million dollar oil concession. And the stingiest bil
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Europe is freezing in the dark, coal has failed, and the only thing standing between Western civilization and collapse is oil buried under Saudi sand. This is the episode where corporate giants rip up a 20-year-old contr
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In the middle of World War Two, America's top geologist looks at the Saudi desert and declares the age of American oil dominance is over. This is the episode where presidents draw maps on napkins, kings sleep in tents on
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What if the war could have ended nine months early - and all it took was a few hundred thousand gallons of gas? This is the episode where you learn that World War Two wasn't won by generals - it was won by refineries, tr
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This conversation explores Japan's strategic pursuit of oil during World War II, focusing on the logistical challenges they faced in transporting captured oil from the Dutch East Indies back to Japan. It highlights the c
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