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CAFE Signals Gas-Mileage Efficiency
In this response to an editorial in The Wall Street Journal criticizing CAFE standards, Amory Lovins describes the failure of the free market to accurately…

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel?
In this commentary in The Wall Street Journal, Amory Lovins responds to the Department of the Interior’s proposals to drill for oil in the Arctic…

Energy: The Avoidable Oil Crisis
This article, published after the oil shocks of the 1970s, details strategies for reducing oil shortages and keeping costs low, thereby preventing another oil crisis.


Nuclear Follies
This unpublished letter to Forbes responded to James Cook’s famous cover-story article of the same name about what the magazine called “the largest managerial disaster…