The Energy Crisis: Its Implications for the U.S.
Author | : United California Bank. Regional and Industrial Economics Group |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Power resources |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United California Bank. Regional and Industrial Economics Group |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Power resources |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard A. Simmons |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2014-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1612493106 |
We are facing a global energy crisis caused by world population growth, an escalating increase in demand, and continued dependence on fossil-based fuels for generation. It is widely accepted that increases in greenhouse gas concentration levels, if not reversed, will result in major changes to world climate with consequential effects on our society and economy. This is just the kind of intractable problem that Purdue University's Global Policy Research Institute seeks to address in the Purdue Studies in Public Policy series by promoting the engagement between policy makers and experts in fields such as engineering and technology. Major steps forward in the development and use of technology are required. In order to achieve solutions of the required scale and magnitude within a limited timeline, it is essential that engineers be not only technologically-adept but also aware of the wider social and political issues that policy-makers face. Likewise, it is also imperative that policy makers liaise closely with the academic community in order to realize advances. This book is designed to bridge the gap between these two groups, with a particular emphasis on educating the socially-conscious engineers and technologists of the future. In this accessibly-written volume, central issues in global energy are discussed through interdisciplinary dialogue between experts from both North America and Europe. The first section provides an overview of the nature of the global energy crisis approached from historical, political, and sociocultural perspectives. In the second section, expert contributors outline the technology and policy issues facing the development of major conventional and renewable energy sources. The third and final section explores policy and technology challenges and opportunities in the distribution and consumption of energy, in sectors such as transportation and the built environment. The book's epilogue suggests some future scenarios in energy distribution and use.
Author | : Kirkpatrick Sale |
Publisher | : The Institute for Southern Studies |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 1973-09-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
There are some remarkable parallels between the Watergate scandals and the energy crisis—the two biggest front-page stories in recent months. Both are the product of a politics of fear and intimidation, a use of power to obscure public issues with scare words like black-outs and Black Panthers, while stealing Americans blind. In the name of law-andorder, the Watergate tricksters nearly stole the government. In the name of supply-and-demand, the energy companies would have us finance their attempt to further monopolize the world's energy resources. But more of us are seeing through these kinds of tricks. On a national level, perhaps television has produced a more sophisticated audience, one capable of discerning a second-rate used car salesman or a fast buck hoax in an instant. That's certainly ironic considering the way TV has become the media for presidental campaigning and the oil companies' good-guy apologies. Of course, Southerners should have a slight edge in spotting a fraud. After all, we've had decades of demagogues and statehouse gangs. telling us what was best for "the little people." Not that we've had a monopoly on such corruption. Nationally, the worst enemies of democracy and free enterprise consistently prove to be those who claim to be those systems' protectors. Still, the South has a special relation to these latest crises. And that's what this issue of our journal is all about. There is increasing evidence that the cronies and the cash that made Watergate a Nixon policy came from the southern USA. Kirkpatrick Sale explores this thought in his analysis of the emerging political clout of what he calls "the southern rim."
Author | : David Lewis Feldman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The energy crisis of 1973-1974 was a pivotal event in twentieth-century American history. In the wake of the Vietnam War, it exposed the nation's economic vulnerability to foreign powers and precipitated an awareness of limits to the exploitation of natural resources. Further, it forced Americans and the American government in particular to think about the future of energy production and consumption in novel waysand made such thinking more imperative than ever. Twenty years later, questions about the energy crisis persist. What were the underlying causes of the crisis? What did we learn from it? How has it affected our current energy policies? Will another energy crisis occur in our future? In The Energy Crisis, David Lewis Feldman brings together a wide range of energy policy experts to address these questions and explore the appropriate role of governments and markets in ensuring a stable, economical, and sustainable energy supply. The authors locate the energy crisis in its historical context and find that, contrary to popular opinion, the Arab oil embargo was not responsible for the energy crisis. Rather, they contend, the crisis was caused by a series of short-sighted policy decisions meant to bring Americans cheaper energy and a cleaner environment. The contributors to The Energy Crisis conclude that the crisis was resolved by a combination of market forces and government intervention, and they offer perspectives on the need to sustain long-term interest in public/private partnerships in the face of short-term political and economic demands.
Author | : Douglas B. Stuart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The impact of the energy crisis is examined in terms of the economic aspects of the crisis, effects on America's allies and alliances, effect on the Communist Bloc, and effect on US warfighting capability. The crisis has a serious impact on national security, particularly on the US economic base and the US's alliances. NATO, especially, has had serious strains as a result of the crisis. In a war with Russia, the US could be a severe disadvantage because of the relative ease with which its energy lifelines can be interdicted. The US Armed Forces should develope tactics for coping with an energy shortage environment. These include development of smaller, faster tankers to reduce their vulnerability to submarine attack and the direction of research toward ways in which petroleum-using equipment could be converted to use other energy sources and/or significantly less petroleum.
Author | : Meg Jacobs |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0809058472 |
"A detailed historical narrative of the U.S. energy crisis in the 1970s and how policymakers responded to the turmoil"--