Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index.

Introduction -- 1. No challenge is greater or more important -- 2. 1997-2007 : then and now -- 3. Oil, coal, and the planet's future -- 4. A confused world, an opportunity to lead -- 5. Learning from others -- 6. The costs of action, the price of inaction -- 7. Government must play a role -- 8. Using the bully pulpit : the power of the energy president -- 9. Facing reality -- 10. 2020 vision : an energy revolution, in five simple steps -- Acknowledgments -- Further reading -- Index.

Global climate change?. We can stop it. Addiction to oil?We can replace it. Technological innovation?. We can create it. But we can't wait twenty, thirty, or fifty years. Bill Richardson launched his campaign for the presidency to remind the American people?and their representatives in Washington?that we know how to get things done. We need to end our dependence on oil, and we need to do it yesterday. This isn't something that's going to happen only in Washington, or Detroit, or even Hollywood or Tokyo. It's going to take all of us, a united United States. We have the opportunity, perhaps for