Introduction: The compelling tangle of energy and American society / Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown
Energy myth one: Today's energy crisis is "hype" / Marilyn A. Brown
Energy myth two: The public is well informed about energy / Rosalyn Mckeown
Energy myth three: High land requirements and an unfavorable energy balance preclude biomass ethanol from playing a large role in providing energy services / Lee R. Lynd, Mark S. Laser, John Mcbride, Kara Podkaminer and John Hannon
Energy myth four: The hydrogen economy is a panacea to the nation's energy problems / Joseph Romm
Energy myth five: Price signals are insufficient to induce efficient energy investments / Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren
Energy myth six: The barriers to new and innovative energy "technologies are primarily technical: the case of Distributed Generation (DG) / Benjamin K. Sovacool and Richard F. Hirsh
Energy myth seven: Renewable energy systems could never meet growing electricity demand in America / Rodney Sobin
Energy myth eight: Worldwide power systems are economically and environmentally optimal / Thomas R. Casten and Robert U. Ayres
Energy myth nine: energy efficiency improvements have already reached their potential / Amory B. Lovins
Energy myth ten: Energy efficiency measures are unreliable, unpredictable, and unenforceable / Edward Vine, Marfiy Kushler and Dan York
Energy myth eleven: Energy R&D investment takes decades to reach the market / Daniel M. Kammen and Gregory F. Nemet
Energy myth twelve: Climate policy will bankrupt the U.S. economy / Eileen Claussen and Janet Peace
Energy myth thirteen: Developing countries are not doing their part in responding to concerns about climate change / Thomas J. Wilbanks
Conclusions: Replacing myths with maxims: Rethinking the relationship between energy and American society / Benjamin K. Sovacool and Marilyn A. Brown.
