Americans have been on a century-long energy spending spree.
From automobiles to architecture, as long as energy costs have stayed
affordable relative to our incomes, neither wastefulness nor environmental
implications figured into our buying and building decisions. But with
skyrocketing energy costs, people are beginning to rethink that approach.
Unfortunately, the inexpensive and immediate fix for our energy problems-energy
conservation-is mostly overlooked in favor of high-cost energy production
solutions, most of which are slow to implement and some of which are counterproductive