Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 6

Explain why you agree or disagree with the following proposals made by various energy analysts as ways to solve U.S. energy problems: (a) find and develop more domestic supplies of conventional crude oil; (b) place a heavy federal tax on gasoline and imported oil to help reduce the consumption of crude oil resources and to encourage use of other alternatives; (c) increase dependence on coal; (d) phase out the use of coal by 2050; (e) increase dependence on nuclear power; (f) phase out all nuclear power plants by 2040.