Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells, Our Ride to the Renewable Future

In this smart, fluent and easy-to-read analysis, Little delivers a confident and constructive narrative that promises to move America, (and therefore the rest of the world) beyond the despair and the doom and gloom that has been plaguing our news stories and the media.

Little takes us on a trip through the past, present and future of America′s energy landscape, clearly and fluently demonstrating how America′s energy consumption first began. Every step of it′s astronomical rise is set out - from Thomas Edison′s light bulb discovery in the early 1800s to Roosevelt′s Faustian deal with Ibn Saud which was to turn oil from a commodity into the single most powerful political, military and economic catalyst of the world. As she reveals the staggering facts, oil′s gargantuan influence on our everyday lives becomes clear. Without it we are nothing, and yet somehow we have allowed it to instruct every facet of our existence.

In this way, *Power Trip* goes beyond the political, scientific and economic implications of the energy crisis and makes clear the invisible thread from which our entire economy dangles. With authority and an extensive breadth of knowledge, using examples of the greatest energy users in the world, Little turns many of these old and tired outlooks for the future of sustainability on its head. Never before has America been so capable and in need of innovatory change and the massive conglomerates are taking giant steps to make this happen. Surely if companies like Wal-Mart can represent the cutting edge in sustainable design, the outlook and potential for the rest of the manufacturing industry looks much brighter?

*Power Trip* is an energetic, fresh and innovatory polemic that inspires and fascinates in equal measure and does for energy what *Fast Food Nation* did for Nutritional Health, changing forever the way we think and feel about our energy and its future.