Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Home Heating Fuels Crisis
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
High Noon for Natural Gas
Author: Julian Darley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Blackouts, rising gas prices, changes to the Clean Air Act, proposals to open wilderness and protected offshore areas to gas drilling, and increasing dependence on natural gas for electricity generation. What do all these developments have in common, and why should we care? In this timely expose, author Julian Darley takes a hard-hitting look at natural gas as an energy source that rapidly went from nuisance to crutch. Darley outlines the implications of our increased dependence on this energy source and why it has the potential to cause serious environmental, political, and economic consequences. In High Noon for Natural Gas readers can expect to find a critical analysis of government policy on energy, as well as a meticulously researched warning about our next potentially catastrophic energy crisis. Did you know that: Natural Gas (NG) is the second most important energy source after oil; In the U.S. alone, NG is used to supply 20% of all electricity and 60% of all home heating; NG is absolutely critical to the manufacture of agricultural fertilizers; In the U.S. the NG supply is at critically low levels, and early in 2003 we came within days of blackouts and heating shutdowns; Matt Simmons, the world's foremost private energy banker, is now warning that economic growth in the U.S. is under threat due to the looming NG crisis?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Blackouts, rising gas prices, changes to the Clean Air Act, proposals to open wilderness and protected offshore areas to gas drilling, and increasing dependence on natural gas for electricity generation. What do all these developments have in common, and why should we care? In this timely expose, author Julian Darley takes a hard-hitting look at natural gas as an energy source that rapidly went from nuisance to crutch. Darley outlines the implications of our increased dependence on this energy source and why it has the potential to cause serious environmental, political, and economic consequences. In High Noon for Natural Gas readers can expect to find a critical analysis of government policy on energy, as well as a meticulously researched warning about our next potentially catastrophic energy crisis. Did you know that: Natural Gas (NG) is the second most important energy source after oil; In the U.S. alone, NG is used to supply 20% of all electricity and 60% of all home heating; NG is absolutely critical to the manufacture of agricultural fertilizers; In the U.S. the NG supply is at critically low levels, and early in 2003 we came within days of blackouts and heating shutdowns; Matt Simmons, the world's foremost private energy banker, is now warning that economic growth in the U.S. is under threat due to the looming NG crisis?
Panic at the Pump
Author: Meg Jacobs
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809058472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"A detailed historical narrative of the U.S. energy crisis in the 1970s and how policymakers responded to the turmoil"--
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809058472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
"A detailed historical narrative of the U.S. energy crisis in the 1970s and how policymakers responded to the turmoil"--
Fuel Crisis Impact on Low-income and Elderly
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Final Report of the National Association of Attorneys General on the December 1989 Energy Crisis
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Eating Fossil Fuels
Author: Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550923765
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture — and appropriate responses The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the US show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot continue in a world of diminishing hydrocarbon resources. Eating Fossil Fuels examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings: The world-wide expansion of agriculture has appropriated fully 40% of the photosynthetic capability of this planet. The Green Revolution provided abundant food sources for many, resulting in a population explosion well in excess of the planet's carrying capacity. Studies suggest that without fossil fuel based agriculture, the US could only sustain about two thirds of its present population. For the planet as a whole, the sustainable number is estimated to be about two billion. Concluding that the effect of energy depletion will be disastrous without a transition to a sustainable, relocalized agriculture, the book draws on the experiences of North Korea and Cuba to demonstrate stories of failure and success in the transition to non-hydrocarbon-based agriculture. It urges strong grassroots activism for sustainable, localized agriculture and a natural shrinking of the world's population. Dale Allen Pfeiffer is a novelist, freelance journalist and geologist who has been writing about energy depletion for a decade. The author of The End of the Oil Age, he is also widely known for his web project: www.survivingpeakoil.com.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550923765
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
A shocking outline of the interlinked crises in energy and agriculture — and appropriate responses The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the US show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot continue in a world of diminishing hydrocarbon resources. Eating Fossil Fuels examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings: The world-wide expansion of agriculture has appropriated fully 40% of the photosynthetic capability of this planet. The Green Revolution provided abundant food sources for many, resulting in a population explosion well in excess of the planet's carrying capacity. Studies suggest that without fossil fuel based agriculture, the US could only sustain about two thirds of its present population. For the planet as a whole, the sustainable number is estimated to be about two billion. Concluding that the effect of energy depletion will be disastrous without a transition to a sustainable, relocalized agriculture, the book draws on the experiences of North Korea and Cuba to demonstrate stories of failure and success in the transition to non-hydrocarbon-based agriculture. It urges strong grassroots activism for sustainable, localized agriculture and a natural shrinking of the world's population. Dale Allen Pfeiffer is a novelist, freelance journalist and geologist who has been writing about energy depletion for a decade. The author of The End of the Oil Age, he is also widely known for his web project: www.survivingpeakoil.com.
The Impact of the Energy and Fuel Crisis on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Special Small Business Problems
Publisher:
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Category : Fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Energy Supply and Demand
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher: Agriculture Department
ISBN:
Category : Energy consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: Agriculture Department
ISBN:
Category : Energy consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Impact of the Energy and Fuel Crisis on Small Business, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Special Small Business Problems of ... , 91-2, Pursuant to H. Res. 66 ... , October 6, 7, and 8, 1970
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Examining Solutions to Cope with the Rise in Home Heating Oil Prices
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description