Terry Tamminen was previously the head of the California Environmental Protection Agency, and a former state cabinet secretary. His book, "Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction" is an excellent read that offers a first hand, passionate, fact-packed overview of the undeniable evidence against Big Oil while calling for new energy policies to shift away from fossil fuel dependency and promote conservation.
Highlighted with numerous statistics, each chapter examines our fossil fuel dependency in real cost -- not just through dollars and cents, but in compromised health resulting from exposure to toxic air pollution, environmental degradation, social injustice, and instability provoked by the pursuit of oil.
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