End of Energy The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence

Name: End of Energy The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence
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ISBN: 9780262518673

ISBN-10: 0262518678

ISBN-13: 9780262518673

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael J. Graetz

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Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when weturn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentifuland relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael Graetz shows us that we havebeen living an energy delusion for forty years. Until the 1970s, we produced domestically all theoil we needed to run our power plants, heat our homes, and fuel our cars. Since then, we have had toimport 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 fortyyears of energy policy incompetence and argues that we must…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Michael J. Graetz is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia University and Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Yale Law School. His other books include Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth.