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A Debate on a Time to Choose
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A Debate on a Time to Choose




Critique by William P. Tavoulareas, president, Mobil Corporation, and member of the advisory committee of the Energy Policy Project, of A Time to Choose, the final report of the project. With a reply by Carl Kaysen, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tavoulareas, William, Kaysen, Carl
1977
114 pages


Contents
List Of Figures
List Of Tables
Foreword
Part I A Time to Choose: a Critique William P. Tavoulareas
Preface
Footnotes
Section 1 Overview
Events Since a Time to Choose Was Published
Section 2 the Alternative to a Time to Choose
Section 3 the Climate for Decision Making on Energy
Footnotes
Section 4 the Conceptual Framework of the Report
Section 5 the Scenarios and the System of Analysis
"Historical Growth"
Information Published Since a Time to Choose Appeared
"Technical Fix"
"Zero Energy Growth"
Comments by Consuming Sector
Summary of a Time to Choose Energy Reductions
Section 6 Chapter 9 and Big Oil
Footnotes
Appendix a Some Specific Failures of the Epp's Economic Analysis
Footnotes
Part II a Time to Choose: a Reply Carl Kaysen
Section 1 the Basic Validity of a Time to Choose
Increasing Supply vs. Reducing Demand
the Ideological Stance of a Time to Choose
The EPP Scenarios
Conclusions
Section 2 Further Responses to the Critique
Is The Historical Growth Scenario Really Inconsistent with Other Analytically Sound Projections?
Did the EPP Really Underestimate Significant Components of Energy Demand?
What About Those Electric Heating Projections?
How Realistic are the EPP Estimates of Potential Energy Savings?
Some Miscellaneous and Specific Items
Index
About The Authors