The Crisis In Energy Policy (The Godkin Lectures On The Essentials Of Free Government And The Duties Of The Citizen) (Hardcover)

The Crisis in Energy Policy (The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen)

Our future depends on what we do about energy. This stark fact, clear since the oil embargo of the 1970s, has been hammered home through crisis after crisis?and yet our government has failed to come up with a coherent energy policy. John Deutch, with his extraordinary mix of technical, scholarly, corporate, and governmental expertise in the realm of energy, is uniquely qualified to explain what has stood in the way of progress on this most pressing issue. His book is at once an eye-opening history of the muddled practices that have passed for energy policy over the past thirty years, and a cogent account of what we can and should learn from so many breakdowns of strategy and execution.