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Take A Look Inside The Book
Our book cover is pretty cool but we don't expect you to decide to buy it just based on that. Here's a look at the table of contents from "Who Turned Out The Lights? A Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis." Consider this our mini-tour - - of what's waiting for you inside the book.
Table Of Contents
Preface: Where We're Coming From
Chapter 1: Six Reasons the United States Needs to Get Its Energy Act Together
• Playing the Blame Game
• The Great Energy Debate Pop Quiz
• Suppose People in China Really Start Living the Way We Do
Chapter 2: Groundhog Day, or Haven't We Seen This Movie Before?
• America’s Energy Chronicles, or How We Got to Where We Are Today
Chapter 3: Giving the Voters What They Want
Chapter 4: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time - -
or How Three Flawed Ideas Could Get Us Off Track
• A Message to Our Readers
Chapter 5: The Basics: Ten Facts You Need to Know
• The Great All-in-One Fossil Fuel Centerfold
Chapter 6: Double, Double, Oil, and Trouble
• Peak Oil, or When Will We Run Out?
• The Return of Snidely Whiplash: Are Evil Speculators to Blame?
Chapter 7: You Load Sixteen Tons and What Do You Get?
• Clean Coal: The Ad Wars
Chapter 8: It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
Chapter 9: Time for the Nuclear Option?
• Chernobyl and Three Mile Island: Twice-Told Tales
Chapter 10: As Long as the Wind Blows and the Sun Shines
• 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
Chapter 11: No Place Like [an Energy-Efficient] Home
• Are We Looking to Live in All the Wrong Places?
• On the Rebound: Why More Efficiency Doesn’t Always Save Energy
Chapter 12: Driven to Distraction
• The Big Bang Theory of Auto Safety
• Take Your Pick: Food or Fuel?
Chapter 13: Looking for Mr. Wizard
• Green-Collar Jobs, You Say? Name Some
Chapter 14: Sitting on Top of the World
• Setting the Global Thermostat: How to Tell if We’re Really Making Progress on Climate Change
Chapter 15: So Now What? Ideas from the Left, Right, and Center
• This Little Piggy Went to Market; This Little Piggy Passed Laws
• President Obama’s Promises
Chapter 16: The Reality Show
