Going Green with Electric Cars - Energy Policy or Just Sexy?

This short book is an overview of how our electricity is currently generated, and alternative technologies for generating clean power. The focus is on the impact of a new class of automobiles, the electric car, on oil consumption, greenhouse gases, and the electric power grid. The reason for focusing on the electric car is because these cars have captured much attention recently, and digging into the impact of the electric car is a great opportunity to learn a bit about the complex topic of the future of energy.

The author, Bernie Landoz is not an energy expert. He is an investor and a lobbyist of sorts. But his position requires him to understand a variety of industries, one of which is the future of energy and the newest technologies in energy, which include the electric car and the smart power grid. Investors and lobbyists often end up knowing more than the experts about what's strategically important, because their focus is on breadth, not depth (i.e. the big picture).

Bernie illustrates his analysis based on industry data and his insight as an investor and lobbyist. He is using data from a variety of sources, and shares that data, but he emphasizes that his main point is not debating the fine details of the data. His focus is providing a reasonably accurate picture of the future of energy, and its relationship to automobiles, for the purposes of discussing energy policy and as input to an investment strategy for these new technologies.

This book is also an opportunity to understand how a large-scale investor and lobbyist thinks. More information about Bernie is available at www.bernielandoz.com.