Controversial Issues in Energy Policy, Vol. 2 Book

	Series Editors' Introduction
	Preface
1	An Introduction to Energy Policy: The Crisis in the Gulf	3
	Declining U.S. Production	4
	The Iraqi Invasion	7
	The Need for an Energy Policy	13
	Long-Term Energy Alternatives	17
2	Energy Economics	23
	Energy Trends Since World War II	23
	The Debate About Energy Scarcity	25
	Unexpected Price Shocks	29
	Impacts on World Economic Growth	32
3	U.S. Government Policies	35
	Theory and Practice	36
	The Oil Embargo: The Government Responds	39
	An Assessment of the Government Response	48
	The Legacy of the Policy Changes	53
4	The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries	57
	The Goals of the OPEC Nations	58
	Cartel Theory	61
	Successes and Failures	63
	Backstop Technologies	71
5	Comparative Energy Policies	74
	Japan	75
	France	78
	Great Britain	82
	Energy Efficiency in the EEC	86
6	Synfuels	91
	Policy Development	92
	Constraints	93
	Enthusiasm Dissipated	95
	Limits on Interventionist Policies	100
7	Nuclear Power	103
	Origins and Development	103
	Scaling Up	106
	From Technical Issues to Human Factors	109
	The Post-TMI Consensus	110
8	The Electric Utility Industry Faces the Future	113
	New Pressures and Uncertainties	114
	Industry Responses	116
	The Role of Nuclear Power	126
9	Conclusion	128
	Appendix 1: Photovoltaics	136
	Appendix 2: Global Warming	139
	References	143
	Index	150
	About the Author	157