Fueling Freedom, Kathleen Hartnett White
Fueling Freedom, Kathleen Hartnett White
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Fueling Freedom
Exposing the Mad War on Energy

Author: Kathleen Hartnett White, Stephen Moore

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/31/2016


Synopsis

Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks to incredible innovations in the energy industry, fossil fuels are as promising, safe, and clean an energy resource as has ever existed in history. Yet, highly politicized climate policies are pushing a grand-scale shift to unreliable, impractical, incredibly expensive, and far less efficient energy sources. Today, "fossil fuel" has become such a dirty word that even fossil fuel companies feel compelled to apologize for their products. In Fueling Freedom, energy experts Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White make an unapologetic case for fossil fuels, turning around progressives' protestations to prove that if fossil fuel energy is supplanted by "green" alternatives for political reasons, humanity will take a giant step backwards and the planet will be less safe, less clean, and less free.

About Kathleen Hartnett White

Kathleen Hartnett White is the director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin and the former chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the second-largest environmental regulatory agency after the EPA. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at Stanford and her law degree at Texas Tech. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Forbes, the National Review, and Investor's Business Daily.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jerry on February 02, 2020

Energy remains an elusive concept, easily misunderstood by policy makers who would impose grand plans on society. Ubiquitous and reliable electrical power lays at the foundation of modern civilization. We cannot make good public policy decisions about energy production without an understanding of ba......more

Goodreads review by Ann on March 20, 2018

Moore makes a convincing argument about how fossil fuels are the engine behind the incredible increase in standard of living across the globe in the 19th and 20th centuries. While much accolades are given to the brains behind the inventions, it is also true that without harnessing power beyond human......more

Goodreads review by David on January 22, 2022

A bit repetitive and biased but certainly eye opening comments about the value of fossil fuels and why the world cannot run with wind and sun alone......more