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I'd like to recommend to anyone interested in these topics these two items:
Book: The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, by Richard Heinberg. Besides covering a variety of alternative fuels, he also talks a little bit about a society's "energy budget" which I found quite interesting. Also somewhat depressing; be warned that critics found the book too apocalyptic, but I thought it was realistic.
Movie: Who Killed the Electric Car? This movie made me madder than "Inconvenient Truth", because I knew all about global warming mechanisms, but not why I waited patiently for electric cars to arrive in my area, only to find they had inexplicably vanished. Great take on how auto makers, oil companies, and politicians can shoot themselves in the foot. Who knows what things would be like if electric cars had become as mainstream as hybrids appear to be getting now (with almost a 10-year lead)?
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