Coming Clean

Acknowledgments9

Introduction

It’s Time to Refuel
11

Chapter 1

Getting Our Fix
The True Cost of America’s Oil Habit
22

Chapter 2

Smokescreen
The Dirty Side of "Clean Coal"
40

Chapter 3

Separate Oil and State
Getting Fossilized Power out of Politics
59

Chapter 4

Follow the Money
How Your Bank Is Funding Climate Change, and What You Can Do About It
75

Chapter 5

Redesigning Mobility
Moving America in a Post-Oil Economy
95

Chapter 6

Jump-Start Detroit
How Automakers Can Save Themselves, and the Planet
111

Chapter 7

Growing Gas
Are Biofuels Fueling or Fooling America?
129

Chapter 8

Greening the Grid
How Sun and Wind Can Generate Power and Prosperity
146

Chapter 9

Less Is More
Fighting Climate Change While Living the Good Life
167

Chapter 10

Power Shift
Shaping a Clean-Energy Society
183
Resources197
Notes217
Index259
About the Author269