BOOKS ON ENERGY POLICY

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The Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy addresses energy policy

in the United States, including its effects on our domestic and international political priorities,

particularly our national security. The task force’s goals are to gather comprehensive information

on current scientifi c and technological developments, survey the contingent policy actions, and

offer a range of prescriptive policies to address our varied energy challenges. The task force

focuses on public policy at all levels, from individual to global, and then recommends policy

initiatives to the advantage of both private enterprises and governments acting individually

and in concert. The core membership of this task force includes Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., Gary S.

Becker, Paul Berg, Samuel Bodman, Michael J. Boskin, Jeremy Carl, John F. Cogan, Sidney D. Drell,

James E. Goodby, Lawrence H. Goulder, Kenneth L. Judd, Alexander A. Karsner, Howard H. Leach,

Kevin M. Murphy, Jens Nørskov, William J. Perry, John Raisian, William Reilly, Condoleezza Rice,

Burton Richter, Admiral Gary Roughead, Henry S. Rowen, Lucy Shapiro, George P. Shultz (chair),

Kiron K. Skinner, Abraham D. Sofaer, Thomas F. Stephenson, James L. Sweeney, John B. Taylor,

David G. Victor, and James Woolsey.

Distributed Power in the United States: Prospects and PoliciesEdited by Jeremy Carl

Scholars from the Brookings Institution’s Energy Security Initiative and the Hoover Institu-tion’s Task Force on Energy Policy offer recommendations for ensuring the security and sustainability of our electricity system now and for the future through the greater deploy-ment of distributed power systems (DPS). Their report provides a comprehensive survey of the current technology and policy landscape of DPS and offers suggestions for its most effective use, along with warnings on its possible pitfalls.

Hoover Institution Press, 2012

Powering the Armed Forces: Meeting the Military’s Energy ChallengesGary Roughead, Jeremy Carl, and Manuel Hernandez

Powering the Armed Forces offers a perspective on the impressive work now under way in the US military forces to address energy challenges and ultimately achieve energy securi-ty. Drawn from a Hoover Institution conference in December 2011, the contributors reveal how energy critically relates to our national security mission and to the effectiveness and safety of our men and women fi ghting on land, at sea, and in the air—and show that the Defense Department is committed to improving our nation’s energy position.

Hoover Institution Press, 2012

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Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America’s Energy ChoicesEdited by Jeremy Carl and James Goodby

In this conference report, members of the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Energy Task Force offer ideas and recommendations to improve the United States’ performance in responding to energy challenges. Their recommendations cover a number of key policy areas, including distributed energy, energy effi ciency, internationalizing the nuclear fuel cycle, synthetic biology, putting a price on carbon, sustained support for research and development, and pursuing international energy relationships.

Hoover Institution Press, 2010

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st CenturyBurton Richter

Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize–winning scientist who has served on many US and inter-national review committees on climate change and energy issues. He provides a concise overview of the knowledge and uncertainties within climate change science, discusses current energy demand-and-supply patterns, and the energy options available to cut green-house gas emissions. This book assesses the sensible, senseless, and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions about switching to more-sustainable energy provision.

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Benefi ts?Ken G. Glozer

In this book, Glozer presents the history, the promises, and the truth about federal corn ethanol policy. The book is based on an in-depth, fact-based evaluation of each major claim made by the advocates of the policy. After providing a detailed history of the policy from 1977 to the present, he examines whether any of the claims made by those who advocated the current federal corn ethanol policy are true (he found only one). The policy does indeed create jobs in rural areas of the ten largest corn-producing states in the Mid-west but at a high cost to others.

Hoover Institution Press, 2011