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Lives per gallon : the true cost of our oil addiction / Terry Tamminen.
Lippincott Library HD9502.A2 T34 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tamminen, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy consumption--Environmental aspects.
- Energy consumption.
- Energy policy--United States.
- Energy policy.
- History, Military.
- United States.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Middle East--History, Military.
- Middle East.
- Middle East Region.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2006]
- Summary:
- Tamminen takes a hard look at health, environmental, and national security costs hidden in every barrel of oil. He also offers a blueprint for developing alternative energy sources based on California's real world experiences.
- Contents:
- The breath of our fathers
- A losing proposition
- Desperate enterprise
- All that glitters
- Wealth rather seems to possess them
- Worse poison to men's souls
- Postcards from the year
- The quality of mercy
- Epilogue : the seventh generation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1597261017
- 9781597261012
- OCLC:
- 68373227
- Publisher Number:
- 9781597261012
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- Publisher description
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