Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 18, 2024

Duration

1h 28m

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Dwarkesh Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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• Daniel Yergin

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• Dwarkesh Patel

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Daniel Yergin and Dwarkesh Patel, Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin explores how Oil Shaped War, Wealth, and Today’s Geopolitics and Energy Future Daniel Yergin traces how oil underpinned the major events of the 20th century, from World War I and II to the rise of OPEC and the 1973 oil crisis, fundamentally shaping geopolitics and economic development.

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