Assignment #2

Assignment 2: Read Chapter 4 on Energy (pages 130-136) and the link to the article on Energy Crisis and climate change and address the following four questions.

https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/climate-policies-are- creating-an-energy-crisis (Climate Policies are creating an energy crisis)

Why are countries of the world facing an energy crisis? Why has been difficult for the United States been unable to enact an effective policy to deal with the crisis? According to the article why does McConnell say the U.S. electric power grid is being stretched to the brink? Since electricity cannot be reliably and inexpensively stored, how should it be used?