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Tracing the history of the oil, coal, hydroelectric, and nuclear industries, articles from the journal The Nation detail how special interests have shaped public policy through the years.

Publisher description: This work features a unique and powerful conceptual framework for analysis of energy technologies (standard and alternative) in terms of their respective dollar costs, environmental costs, and national security costs. This three-point framework allows examination of issues and problems associated with implementation of U.S. energy policies in the context of major social goals (such as growth and equity), with treatment of conflicts...

"Energy can be neither created nor destroyed -- but it can be wasted. The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy, including 80 percent of the energy used in transportation. So the nation has a tremendous opportunity to develop a sensible energy policy based on benefits and costs. But to do that we need facts -- not hyperbole, not wishful thinking. Mara Prentiss presents and interprets political and technical information from government reports...

Energy, the master resource, is the world's largest industry and the bedrock of modern life. Without carbon-based energy, in particular, production and consumption as we know it would not exist. During the last 150 years, the United States has been at the forefront of energy development. This book chronicles important swaths of history by focusing on the great entrepreneurs of electricity and natural gas: their lives and labors, their faults and failures,...