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In this book, Author Amanda Little gives the background history and origin of America's energy “addiction.” She explains how abundant oil and coal created the American thirst for oil and energy. Little explains how much we depend on oil, how we got here and how we, America, can get ourselves out of the mess. She proposes some promising clean-energy solutions and believes that our past history with oil and energy can help us find suitable solutions for energy.

The organization and structure of "Power Trip" is divided into sections which then has several different chapters that fall under that particular section. The first section, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Oil," has seven chapters discussing how people’s oil and petroleum dependency began. The second part, "Greener Pastures," is four chapters about ideas of some possible energy futures. Her books are very realistic, intriguing and fun. She does not bring politics into her novel and just presents the facts as-is which provides a wholesome and bias-free arguement.

Reading this book taught me more in depth about petrochemicals and their environmental effects. I also learned about how complicated the oil dependency is and that there is no one answer solution to our problems. “Power Trip” is a good, factual and entertaining read for anyone that enjoys learning about the history of the world’s environmental issues or to anyone that thinks they know the solution.