Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming

by Stephen Ansolabehere, David M Konisky, David M. Konisky

Book Overview

How Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this can shape U.S. energy and climate change policy.

How do Americans think about energy? Is the debate over fossil fuels highly partisan and ideological? Does public opinion about fossil fuels and alternative energies divide along the fault between red states and blue states? And how much do concerns about climate change weigh on their opinions? In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027623
• ISBN13: 9780262027625
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher