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Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy: Books
April 11, 2011
Corn Ethanol: Who Pays? Who Benefits?
In this book, Ken 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 each major claims 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 Midwest but at a high cost to others.
April 1, 2011
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the Twenty-first Century
Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize–winning scientist who has served on many US and international 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 greenhouse gas emission. 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 on switching to more-sustainable energy provision.
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November 12, 2010
Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America's Energy Choices
Members of the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Energy Task Force offer ideas and recommendations to improve the performance of the United States in responding to the energy challenges. There recommendations cover a number of key policy areas, including: distributed energy, energy efficiency, internationalizing the nuclear fuel cycle, synthetic biology, putting a price on carbon, sustained support for research and development, and emerging international energy relationships.