Author of New Book About Oil and Gas Boom Gives Interesting Interview

From the Washington Post:
Let’s get this out of the way first: Michael Levi’s new book, “The Power Surge,” is very likely to be one of the best things you’ll read about the ongoing oil and gas boom in the United States.
the-power-surge_1True, the book doesn’t really have a grand overarching theory. There aren’t any sweeping predictions that shale gas will supercharge the U.S. economy or that Canada’s tar sands will destroy the planet.
Instead, the book is filled with detailed on-the-ground reporting and carefully reasoned observations about how the oil and gas uptick could have all sorts of unexpected impacts on everything from U.S. foreign policy to climate change to transportation. And it works remarkably well: There were dozens of places that forced me to completely reconsider what I thought I knew about energy markets.
So, to talk a bit more about the book, I called up Levi, who is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. A transcript follows:
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