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Power Trip: The Story of America's Love Affair with Energy

by Amanda Little

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A cross-country inquiry into America’s energy dependence

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A cross-country inquiry into America’s energy dependence

Amanda Little examines the American energy landscape through on-the-ground visits to oil infrastructure, agricultural country, military spaces, motorsports, urban electricity systems, and laboratories working on cleaner-energy technologies. Alongside this reporting journey, the book traces the historical development of the country’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels. The breadth of locations links everyday power use to the industrial, political, and technological systems that sustain it, while framing innovation as a central part of the book’s inquiry into possible energy transitions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in U.S. energy history and infrastructure
  • Those seeking reportage on fossil fuels and clean-energy technology
  • Readers interested in the links among environment, industry, and public policy

Themes

Energy dependenceFossil fuelsClean-energy innovationU.S. infrastructureEnvironmental challenges

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Book overview

After covering the environment and energy beat for more than a decade, columnist Amanda Little decided that the only way to fully understand America's energy crisis was to travel into the heart of it. So she embarked on a daring, cross-country power trip to the most extreme and exciting frontiers of our energy landscape.

In Power Trip, we accompany her to a deep-sea oil rig, the cornfields of Kansas, the catacombs of the Pentagon, the Talladega Superspeedway, and inside New York City's electrical grid. We visit laboratories creating the innovations that will carry us into a clean-energy future. Little also travels back through history to investigate how America developed its unrivaled appetite for fossil fuels. In vivid, fast-paced prose, she illustrates how the same American ingenuity that got us into this mess can get us out of it too.

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