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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262295611
Forty years of energy incompetence: villains, failures of leadership, and missed opportunities. Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy , Michael Graetz shows us that we have been living an energy delusion for forty years. Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all the oil we needed to run our power plants, heat our homes, and fuel our cars. Since then, we have had to import most of the oil we use, much of it from the Middle East. And we rely on an even dirtier fuel—coal—to produce half of our electricity. Graetz describes more than forty years of energy policy incompetence and argues that we must make better decisions for our energy future. Despite thousands of pages of energy legislation since the 1970s (passed by a Congress that tended to elevate narrow parochial interests over our national goals), Americans have never been asked to pay a price that reflects the real cost of the energy they consume. Until Americans face the facts about price, our energy incompetence will continue—and along with it the unraveling of our environment, security, and independence.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262295611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 04 March 2011
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8653.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262295611