Jaccard makes some strong arguments throughout the book. Clearly a lot of research has gone into the data.However, Jaccard makes a lot of assumptive statements, not backed up by enough economic theory. The book swings between being from an ecologist's point of view and an economic stance, but Jaccard makes his thoughts know when he jokes that economists "don't know they are lying", and that economics' "abstract models get in the way of seeing reality".Further more, there is no mention of the Hotelling Principle that is key to this area of energy and natural resource economics.A good read if you are wanting to know more about fossil fuels, but a bit disappointing if you are wanting to learn more than the scaremongering propaganda that you read in a newspaper.