Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 A "New Economic Policy" -- 2 Losing Control over Oil -- 3 The Environment Moves Front and Center -- 4 No More Nuclear -- 5 The Changing Face of Coal -- 6 Natural Gas and the Ability to Price -- 7 The Quest for Alternatives and to Conserve --...

With the permission of MIT Press, this document includes Chapters 11 and 12 from my 2011 book, The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America’s Environment, Security, and Independence. These two chapters discuss some of the history and merits of taxes, subsidies, and regulation (including cap and...