Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America

A pumpjack pumping an oil well near Lubbock, Texas

Source: Flcelloguy

A sample of medium heavy crude oil

Source: Glasbruch2007 at en.wikipedia

An oil derrick in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1922

Source: national archives

Typical Brazilian fuel station with a choice of four fuels available: diesel (B3), gasoline (E25), neat hydrous ethanol (E100), and natural gas (CNG). Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil

Source: Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz

Athabasca oil sands, sometime between 1900 and 1930

Source: Library and Archives Canada

An oil field in California, 1938

Source: U.S. Library of Congress

$Protestors demonstrate against fracking in New York$

Protestors demonstrate against fracking in New York

Source: Owen Crowley

The Castle Gate coal-fired power plant near Helper, Utah, 2007

Source: David Jolley

A Wyoming strip mine

Source: Bureau of Land Management

Aerial image of a coal fly ash slurry spill in Kingston, Tennessee, taken the day after the spill in December 2008

Source: Tennessee Valley Authority

Coke oven at a smokeless fuel plant in Wales, United Kingdom

Source: Velela

A post card from Galicia, dated 1881

Source: public domain

Canadian protesters object to expansion of oil projects on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in September 2011

Source: photo by Peter Blanchard

Coal cars pass through St. Paul, Minnesota

Source: photo by Greg W.

Polar bears in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Source: Alan D. Wilson

A offshore oil drilling rig in the North Sea

Source: Erik Christensen

Cygnet, Ohio was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.

Source: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey

The hydroelectric Norris Dam, a TVA project, in 1937.

Source: National Records and Archives Administration

A U.S. oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II

Source: U.S. Navy

General Motors Urban Electric Car gets a battery charge from an outlet in the parking lot at the first symposium on low pollution power systems development held at the Mariott Motor Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1973.

Source: National Records and Archives Administration; photo by Frank Lodge