Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential
campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (Drill, baby,
drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But
there is a serious problem endemic to America's energy challenges.
Policymakers tend to do just enough to satisfy political demands but
not enough to solve the real problems, and they wait too long to act.
The resulting policies are overly reactive, enacted once damage is
already done, and they are too often incomplete, incoherent, and
ineffectual. Given the gravity of current economic, geopolitical, and
environmental concerns, this is more unacceptable than ever. This
important volume details this problem, making clear the unfortunate
results of such short-sighted thinking, and it proposes measures to
overcome this counterproductive tendency. All of the contributors to
"Acting in Time on Energy Policy" are affiliated with Harvard
University and rank among America's pre-eminent energy policy
analysts. They tackle important questions as they pertain to specific
areas of energy policy: why are these components of energy policy so
important? How would acting in time i.e. not waiting until politics
demands action-make a difference? What should our policy actually be?
We need to get energy policy right this time - Gallagher and her
colleagues help lead the way.
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