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