A Smart Energy Policy: An Economist's RX for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure Energy

by James M. Griffin

Book Overview

While everyone wants energy that is clean, cheap, and secure, these goals often conflict: traditional fossil fuels tend to be cheaper than alternative fuels, but they are hardly clean or (in the case of oil) secure. This timely book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the issues as well as sensible proposals for a truly sustainable energy policy.

Economist James Griffin points out that current energy policies are fatally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300149859
• ISBN13: 9780300149852
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"