Inside the Alaska Pipeline

Ed McGrath's personal experiences as a pipeline laborer. He knows the oil company camps from Prudhoe Bay to Cold Foot and the pipeliners who live in them; he knows the work, the machines, the money, the weather, the women; he knows the final impact the pipeline will have on the lane and the people: rape and pillage. His quote: "The pipeline is truly a remarkable thing, a tribute to the power of American technology. If there are many questionable aspects to it, there is at least no denying its size. In fact, before the last barrel of crude is pumped out of the ground at Prudhoe bay, the pipeline may generally be recognized as the biggest rip-off of the American consumer yet perpetrated."