CONTENTS

Prologue

Introduction

1

Energy at a Crossroads: Doomslayers vs. Doomsayers

2

How the Shale Revolution Is Changing Everything

3

Saudi America: How Energy Is Remaking the U.S. Economy

4

The Light of the World

5

Darkness Reigned: The Pre-Industrial Era

6

The Industrial Revolution: Humanity’s Great Energy Enrichment

7

The Real Green Revolution: Fossil Fuels Feed the World

8

The False Hope of Green Energy

9

Europe’s Energy Folly: Energy Poverty and “Dramatic Deindustrialization”

10

Death by Regulatory Asphyxiation: The Bogus Environmental Case against Fossil Fuels

11

A Declaration of Energy Independence: America’s $50 Trillion Opportunity

Acknowledgments

Recommended Reading

Notes

Index