Who Turned Out the Lights?: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis

, by Bittle, Scott

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ISBN: 9780061715648 | 0061715646
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/27/2009

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From the editors of PublicAgenda.org comes an entertaining, irreverent, and absolutely essential nonpartisan guide to the energy crisis.

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Preface: Where We're Coming From	p. xv
Six Reasons the United States Needs to Get Its Energy Act Together	p. 1
Playing the Blame Game
The Great Energy Debate Pop Quiz
Suppose People in China Really Start Living the Way We Do
Groundhog Day, or Haven't We Seen This Movie Before?	p. 24
America's Energy Chronicles, or How We Got to Where We Are Today
Giving the Voters What They Want	p. 36
Seemed Like a Good idea at the Time, or How Three Flawed Ideas Could Get Us Off Track	p. 43
A Message to Our Readers
The Basics: Ten Facts You Need to Know	p. 57
The Great All-in-One Fossil Fuel Centerfold
Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble	p. 81
Peak Oil, or When Will We Run Out?
The Return of Snidely Whiplash: Are Evil Speculators to Blame?
You Load Sixteen Tons and What Do You Get?	p. 110
Clean Coal: The Ad Wars
It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)	p. 129
Time for the Nuclear Option?	p. 141
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island: Twice-Told Tales
As Long as the Wind Blows and the Sun Shines	p. 162
Dam It: Hydroelectric Power
Looking for the Newest Hot Spots: Geothermal Power
Grid and Bear It: Why the United States Needs a New Electricity Grid
No Place Like [an Energy-Efficient] Home	p. 193
Are We Looking to Live in All the Wrong Places?
On the Rebound: Why More Efficiency Doesn't
Always Save Energy
Driven to Distraction	p. 211
The Big Bang Theory of Auto Safety
Take Your Pick: Food or Fuel?
Looking for Mr. Wizard	p. 235
Green-Collar Jobs, You Say? Name Some
Sitting on Top of the World247
Setting the Global Thermostat: How to Tell if We're Really
Making Progress on Climate Change
So Now What? Ideas from the Left, Right, and Center	p. 261
This Little Piggy Went to Market; This Little Piggy Passed Laws
President Obama's Promises
The Reality Show	p. 292
Acknowledgments	p. 301
Notes	p. 303
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Who Turned Out the Lights?: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis

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