Half Gone : Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Global Energy Crisis

With compelling argument and sobering clarity, Leggett explains how we became addicted to oil and how our habit will drag us into an increasingly destabilizing dependence upon the Middle East and toward economic and environmental catastrophe. And yet, his outlook is paradoxically positive, for all the technology we need to get off this road to disaster is already at hand. In ringingly clear terms, Half Gone previews for the reader the dark place toward which the world is headed, but has the decency to signpost a safe exit.