17
Ibid. In 2008, the agency's budget was 277 million euros.
37
Areva,
All About Nuclear Energy: From Atom to Zirconium
. (Paris: Areva, 2008), 105.
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.”
47
BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009.
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.
Chapter 30
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.
11
The corollary to that statement is that it is the nature of liberalism to feel bad about it.
Epilogue
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
â11â09/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.
19
International Energy Agency, “World Energy Outlook 2010,” 77. Note that these projections are based on what the IEA calls its “New Policies Scenario.”
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.