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You live in this world. You use oil. You must read this book.
The situation is alarming and irrefutable: within thirty years, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is readily available to us. Already, the costly side effects of dependence on fossil fuel are taking their toll. Even as oil-related conflict threatens entire nations, individual consumers are suffering from higher prices at the gas pump, rising health problems, and the grim prospect of long-term environmental damage. In this frank and balanced investigation, Paul Roberts offers a timely wake-up call. He talks to both oil optimists and oil pessimists, delves deep into the economics and politics of oil, and considers the promises and pitfalls of alternatives such as wind power, hybrid cars, and hydrogen. A new afterword brings the book up to the minute. Brisk, immediate, and accessible, this is essential reading for anyone who uses oil, which is to say every one of us.

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May very well become for fossil fuels what Fast Food Nation was to food or High and Mighty to SUVs. Publishers Weekly<br><br> Brilliant The Baltimore Sun<br><br> A stunning piece of work -- perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications. New York Review of Books<br><br> An extraordinarily clear and powerful analysis of what is arguably the most serious crisis our industrial society has ever faced. Boston Herald

May very well become for fossil fuels what Fast Food Nation was to food or High and Mighty to SUVs.

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