Abstract
The metaphor of a watershed aptly describes the energy situation. Disparate opinions and branches of information about energy are beginning to flow together toward a consensus. Gramsci’s image* of the hiatus between the lingering death of an old system and the difficult birth of the new also rings true. The new emphasis on energy conservation is almost literally a revolution. But a watershed is most graphic. With the prevailing divergence of opinion and disjuncture of information, it is difficult to organize a body of knowledge and thought into a single channel of ideas. We hope that in this chapter we can bring together information on the economic, environmental, and physical issues of energy supply in order that better policies, a better consensus, can be formed.
… in the long term, to protect the consumer from the reality of the energy crisis is to destroy him.
Senator Paul Tsongas Dem., Massachusetts (1980)
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Gibbons, J.H., Chandler, W.U. (1981). Energy Supply Policy. In: Energy. Modern Perspectives in Energy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9209-9_8
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