Daniel Yergin

Originally it was gonna be called the prize of the venture, because that's what he said.

And then I just made it the prize.

But he saw that during World War I, he promoted another military development.

I'm forgetting what it was called initially, but it eventually became known as the tank.

I mean, so he really did kind of constantly push technology.

Why?

I don't know.

I mean, he was, you know, he was not educated as that.

He was educated and, you know, sort of in classic.

That's why he wrote so well.

But he understood technology and that you had to kind of constantly push for advantage.

Yeah, I mean, it's extraordinary.

I think in 1912, the head of the Italian military said, planes are interesting, but of no use in war.

And the war did begin with the cavalry charges.

And it began, the German military position was based upon the railroad, inflexible.

But I was, you know, as people said, suddenly you had trucks, you had motorcycles, you had tanks, you had airplanes, etc.

And so a war that began with cavalry ended up with tanks and airplanes and trucks.

And it turned out that it was World War I, and my reading in the writing of the reprise is what really established oil as a strategic commodity.

And the person who became Britain's foreign secretary, foreign minister, said that the Allies floated to victory on a sea of oil.

Exactly.