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...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: An Overview from 30,000 Feet -- 1 The Three Conflicting Goals of Energy Policy -- 2 The End of Cheap Oil? -- 3 Oil Security in an Increasingly Insecure World -- 4 Climate Change and the Search for Clean Energy -- 5 Climate Change and the Difficult...