Power Hungry (63 page)

15
Roger Cohen, “Bunkers or Breakthrough?”
New York Times
, November 5, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/opinion/06iht-edcohen.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1258954347-wP/SZxb94bd5d5GepPd7rA
.

16
International Atomic Energy Agency, “The ‘Atoms for Peace' Agency,”
http://www.iaea.org/About/index.html
.

17
Ibid. In 2008, the agency's budget was 277 million euros.

18
White House, “Remarks by President Barack Obama,” Prague, Czech Republic, April 5, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-By-President-Barack-Obama-In-Prague-As-Delivered/
.

19
Wikipedia, “David E. Lilienthal,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E
. _Lilienthal.

20
The Acheson-Lilienthal Report, March 16, 1946,
http://honors.umd.edu/HONR269J//archive/AchesonLilienthal.html
.

21
For further discussions of the caucus-versus-primary semantics, see Iowacaucus .org,
http://www.iowacaucus.org/iacaucus.html
, or American Political Science Association, “Why Should Iowa Remain the First Presidential Primary?” March 12, 2009,
http://www.apsanet.org/content_63423.cfm
.

22
Energy Policy Act,
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f
:h6enr.txt.pdf.

23
Energy Independence and Security Act,
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f
:h6enr.txt.pdf.

24
American Clean Energy and Security Act,
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f
:h2454pcs.txt.pdf.

25
Peter Lattman, “Lawyers in the US Senate Quiz: The Answers,” September 5, 2007,
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/05/lawyers-in-the-us-senate-quiz-the-answers/
.

26
National Society of Professional Engineers, “Professional Engineers in Congress,” n.d.,
http://www.nspe.org/GovernmentRelations/TakeAction/IssueBriefs/ib_pro_eng_congress.html
.

27
Ibid. For more on Barton, see
http://joebarton.house.gov/Back.aspx?Page=Biography
.

28
Sara Ditta, “A Remedy for What Ails Us: More Doctors in 111th Congress,”
Roll Call
, January 7, 2009,
http://kagen.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=299
:a-remedy-for-what-ails-us-more-doctors-in-111th-congress& catid=66:in-the-news&Itemid=195.

29
Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, “Number of Lawyers in CCBE Member Bars,”
http://www.ccbe.org/fileadmin/user_upload/NTCdocument/table_number_lawyers1_1179905628.pdf
.

30
Wikianswers,
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_total_number_of_lawyers_in_the_US
.

31
BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009,
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/reports_and_publications/statistical_energy_review_2008/STAGING/local_assets/2009_downloads/renewables_section_2009.pdf
. Ahead of Iran, in order, are China, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Qatar, South Korea, and Iceland.

32
Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook, “Middle East: Iran,”
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html
.

33
Brett Jarman, “Iranian CNG Revolution Continues—1.5 Million NGVs and Growing,”
NGVGlobal.com
, August 5, 2009,
http://www.ngvglobal.com/iranian-cng-revolution-continues-1-5-million-ngvs-and-growing-0805#more-3640
.

34
International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles, “Natural Gas Vehicle Statistics,”
http://www.iangv.org/tools-resources/statistics.html
.

35
University of Missouri, “Corncobs Key to Licensing Agreement for Natural Gas Storage Tanks,” May 13, 2009,
http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2009/0513-suppes-pfeifer-natural-gas-license.php
. See also Green Car Congress, “COFs Among the Best Adsorbents for Storage of Hydrogen, Natural Gas and CO
₂
,” June 7, 2009,
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/06/cofs-20090607.html
.
²

36
National Post
, “Graphic: The State of Nuclear Power,” July 31, 2009,
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/07/31/graphic-the-state-of-nuclear-power.aspx
.

37
Areva,
All About Nuclear Energy: From Atom to Zirconium
. (Paris: Areva, 2008), 105.

38
For more on Taylor's views, see: Jerry Taylor, “Nuclear Energy: Risky Business,”
Reason.com
, October 21, 2008,
http://reason.org/news/show/1003239.html
.

39
e360, “Leveling Appalachia,” n.d.,
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2198
.

40
The legal fights over this type of mining have been ongoing for years. For instance, see Ken Ward Jr., “4 Mining Permits Blocked,”
Charleston Gazette
, March 24, 2007,
http://wvgazette.com/News/MiningtheMountains/200703240003
.

41
Eric Bontrager, “EPA Puts Brakes on 3 More Mountaintop Mining Permits,” Greenwire, April 9, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/09/09greenwire-epa-puts-brakes-on-3-more-mountaintop-permits-10493.html?scp=26&sq=energy%20regulation%20and%20sierra%20club&st=cse
.

42
Ken Ward Jr., “Exclusive: Patriot Coal Says—We Can Mine It Underground,”
Coal Tattoo
, August 14, 2009,
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2009/08/14/exclusive-patriot-coal-says-we-can-mine-it-underground/#more-1081
.

43
World Bank, “World Bank Calls for More Results in Gas Flaring Reduction,” December 5, 2008,
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,content-MDK
: 22003319~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html. The World Bank puts total flared gas at 150 billion cubic meters. To convert meters to cubic feet, multiply by 35.3. For conversions, see BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009.

44
Recall that 1 barrel of crude is equal to 5,487 cubic feet of gas.

45
World Bank, “World Bank Calls for More Results.”

46
Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, “Iraq: Assessment of Progress in Economic Reconstruction and Governmental Capacity,” December 2005,
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_senate_committee_prints&docid=f
:24804.pdf, 5.

47
BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009.

48
R3 Sciences,
http://www.r3sciences.com/
.

49
Exxon Mobil has begun marketing a technology that turns dimethyl ether into gasoline. See Robert Rapier, “Energy Potpourri,” R-Squared Energy Blog, October 5, 2008,
http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2009/10/energy-potpourri.html#links
.

50
Monty Hoyt, “US Burning Its Way Toward Fuel Crisis,”
Christian Science Monitor
, June 2, 1971, 1.

51
Matt LeTourneau, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, personal communication with author, August 12, 2009.

1
Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills,
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
(New York: Basic Books, 2005), xxvi.

2
Dennis P. Lockhart, “The US Economy and the Employment Challenge,” fbr
atlanta.org
, August 26, 2009,
http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=572D828F-5056-9F12-12AD9734C17D1C6A&method=display
.

3
Associated Press, “Population Living in Poverty Increasing,” August 19, 2009,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/19/national/main5253630.shtml
.

4
Bob Herbert, “A Word, Mr. President,”
New York Times
, November 9, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/opinion/10herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
.

5
David Streitfeld, “US Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record High,”
New York Times
, November 19, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/business/20mortgage.html
.

6
Rasmussen Reports, “56% Don't Want to Pay More to Fight Global Warming,” July 1, 2009,
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/56_don_t_want_to_pay_more_to_fight_global_warming
.

7
Business Week
, “The Rise and Fall of Dennis Kozlowski,” December 23, 2002,
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_51/b3813001.htm
.

8
Among the best short explanations of what happened is Michael Lewis's “The End,”
Portfolio.com
, November 11, 2008,
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom/index.html
.

9
Richard Harris, “Putting a Financial Spin on Global Warming,” June 24, 2009,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105834436&sc=fb&cc=fp
.

10
William Stanley Jevons,
The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines
(London: Macmillan, 1866), available at
http://books.google.com/books?id=cUgPAAAAIAAJ&dq=jevons+and+the+coal+question&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=FR4jmtfbVI&sig=6rp-Zo-8w2TI1jCzUaHlDbHi4po&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA2,M1
.

11
The corollary to that statement is that it is the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it.

1
Harlan Kirgan, “Mississippi Sierra Club Calls Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ‘America's Chernobyl,'”
Mississippi Press
, May 2, 2010,
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2010/05/spill_is_americas_chernobyl.html
.

2
Elizabeth Weise, “New Microbe Chows Down on Spilled Oil,”
USA Today,
September 1, 2010,
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010
–08–24-oil-microbe_N.htm.

3
Neela Banerjee, “U. S. Lifts Moratorium on Deep-Water Drilling in Gulf of Mexico,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 13, 2010,
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/13/nation/la-na-oil-moratorium-20101013
.

4
Energy Information Administration data,
http://www.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_crpdn_adc_mbblpd_a.htm
.

5
Brian Baskin, “China's Oil Demand Is Poised to Push Up Prices,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 8, 2010,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB
100014240527487044 05704575596743559257682.html.

6
Grant Smith, “China to Drive Energy Surge Through 2035, Warming Planet, IEA Outlook Says,”
Bloomberg
, November 9, 2010,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010
–11–09/china-to-drive-energy-surge-through-2035-warming-planet -iea-outlook-says.html.

7
International Energy Agency, “World Energy Outlook 2010,” 80. In the “Current Policies Scenario,” coal becomes the world's dominant fuel in 2035, slightly eclipsing oil.

8
State Department, “Roundtable with Business Leaders Opening and Closing Remarks, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Governor's House, Lahore, Pakistan, October 29, 2009,”
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/10/131073.htm
.

9
Energy Information Administration data,
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/country_time_series.cfm?fips=PK#elec
.

10
Energy Information Adminstration data,
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/country_energy_data.cfm?fips=FR
.

11
People's Daily Online
, “2 bln Tons of Coal Reserves Discovered in Southern Pakistan,” October 2, 2010,
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7156516.html
.

12
Energy Information Administration, “Natural Gas Weekly Update,” November 10, 2010,
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp
.

13
Energy Information Administration data,
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9070us2m.htm
.

14
For latest prices, see
Bloomberg
,
http://www.bloomberg.com/energy
.

15
Energy Information Administration data,
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9070us2A.htm
.

16
Tennessee Valley Authority, “TVA to Idle Nine Coal-Fired Units,” August 24, 2010,
http://www.tva.gov/news/releases/julsep10/coal_plants.html
.

17
Whitehouse.gov
, full transcript here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/03/press-conference-president
.

18
Daniel Fineren and Muriel Boselli, “IEA Sees Gas Glut Lasting Until 2020,” Reuters, November 9, 2010,
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINLDE6A815R20101109?loomia_ow=t0
:s0:a54:g12:r1:c0.605462:b39103646:z3.

19
International Energy Agency, “World Energy Outlook 2010,” 77. Note that these projections are based on what the IEA calls its “New Policies Scenario.”

20
Ibid, 237.

21
Ibid, 239.

22
E-mail exchanges with Janet Warren by author, February 17 and 19, 2010.

23
Author interview with Tony Moyer via phone, February 17, 2010.

24
Gerry Vassilatos, “The Sonic Weapon of Vladimir Gavreau,”
Journal of Borderland Research
, October 30, 1996,
http://journal.borderlands.com/1996/the-sonic-weapon-of-vladimir-gavreau
.