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

by Michael J. Graetz

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518678
• ISBN13: 9780262518673
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher