| by Vito Stagliano
Energy––electric, oil and gas, coal, nuclear, renewable––powers the United States and the rest of the industrialized world. It also "powers" political upheavals, wars, and seemingly endless quests for the "right" energy strategy that will make logical sense of it all.
Vito A. Stagliano’s long-awaited book represents the history and comprehensive analysis of 65 years of energy policy making, with an insider’s view of the four-years that resulted in the Energy Policy Act of 1992—the last energy legislation enacted by Congress. Placed in the context of U.S. energy policy-making since the New Deal, Stagliano presents a case study which lends a historical basis for measuring the ongoing work of the G. W. Bush Administration to craft a national energy strategy.
Features:
- provides an understanding of the forces that shape national energy policy
- explains how the oil, gas, and electric sectors have been deregulated, and
- analyzes the historic, geographic conflict of interests that shape and distort national energy policy debate.
Contents:
- Introduction by Paul Ruxin, Esq.
- A Brief History of US Energy Policy and its Makers
- The Search for a Policy Consensus
- The Economic Policy Council Takes Control
- Saddam Hussein Lends a Hand
- The National Energy Strategy Emerges—Scathed
- Congress Wants to Know
- Epilogue
- Index
Reviews
"This book is an entertaining, informative description of a complex struggle..."
—R.E. O'Connor, Pennsylvania State University, CHOICE Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
“Stagliano provides an inside--and quite insightful--look at the making of the Energy Policy Act of 1992. In doing so, he has given us an excellent backdrop against which to understand the energy policy debate unfolding before us in 2001.”
— Paul R. Portney, President, Resources for the Future
“This is a very well-researched and well-written book, and I found the author’s description of how the National Energy Strategy was formulated to read almost like a suspense novel.
Fascinating to be able to look behind the scenes, through the eyes of one who was there through it all.
A Policy of Discontent should become mandatory reading for those in the executive and legislative branches of government who have energy in their portfolio.”
—Robert E. Ebel, Director, Energy and National Security
431 pages/Hardcover/July 2001 0-87814-817-5 | 
