Free Report: Why Planet Earth is Limping Along To Replace Fossil Fuels and Nuclear

Best-selling author Craig Shields puts this in perspective with a new book:

IS RENEWABLE STILL DOABLE?
Exploring Clean Energy's Opportunities and Tough Realities

Shields’ new book, due to hit the streets in January 2012, is a compilation of interviews with energy experts – a set of lively discussions with economists, engineers, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, and stock analysts.  And to pave the way, the author wants to offer a “sneak preview” – actually an entire chapter of the book.  Shields continues, “Robert Pollin is one of the most senior economists in energy on Earth.  He functions as a consultant to the Energy Department on implementing the Obama Administration’s stimulus program.  Since public policy is such a hot topic right now, I figured I’d publish my interview with Dr. Pollin in advance, to get folks engaged with the subject.”

Download the chapter here, and check out how Robert Pollin deals with the following:

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•     Was the stimulus program a failure?
•     What needs to happen with the credit system?
•     What’s the right combination of policies that will determine just how bleak our job picture is over the next couple of years?
•     People talk about creating 18 million jobs by the time that Obama runs for re-election. But is that a ridiculously ambitious goal?  Or have we done something like this before?
•     Job growth is anemic.  But does it have to be that way?
•     Can we simply print more money?  What is the sane, responsible way to approach this?
•     How does all this affect the energy industry?  What about subsidies?  How can we deal with the externalities of fossil fuels?

Download the chapter here.

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Shields hopes readers will take him up on his offer, confident that they’ll be fascinated by the viewpoints of this top economist. “Dr. Pollin has extremely specific views on energy policy and how it needs to change.  I think readers will really find this talk illuminating.  I know I did.”

When Clean Energy Press published Shields’ RENEWABLE ENERGY - FACTS AND FANTASIES in 2010, it shot to the top of the sales charts on Amazon.com in both the energy and engineering categories – and stayed there for several weeks.  “That was pretty gratifying, I have to admit,” Shields says. “It made me think: hey – maybe people really do care about this stuff after all.  I mean, it’s not as if our entire future is at stake or anything,” he quips with a smile.