If your would like to know why energy plays such an important part in everyday life then researchers and writers Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson (authors of the best-selling – Where Does The Money Go?), have just the right book for you.
Who Turned Out The Lights?: Your Guided Tour To The Energy Crisis is super easy book to read, very well written and researched, and full of interesting facts. Perhaps most engaging are the explanations of the politics and economics behind many of the major energy resources being consumed in America, including oil, coal, gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro-electric and bio-fuels.
Who Turned Out The Lights? also highlights how peoples’ choices have shaped the energy world in which we live. Did you know that in 1960 there were 74 million cars in the USA, but by 2006 there were 135 million and people drive 3 trillion miles (4.83 trillion kms) per year, consuming a shocking 140 billion gallons (530 billion liters) of fuel. Who Turned Out The Lights? puts our dependence on energy, cheap energy, into sharp perspective.
Who Turned Out The Lights? offers a comprehensive explanation of each energy resource, telling the reader how much there is of it, where in the world it is located, and the positives and negatives about getting it out of the ground and using it. The environmental costs to the planet are explained but it is certainly not an enviro-rant about big oil companies and a rallying call for environmental ‘do-gooders’. Rather, the authors offer a well-balanced look at the energy problems facing America, and the world in general.
Who Turned Out The Lights? is an engaging read for anyone who is interested in learning more about where our energy comes from.
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 368
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