SONIA SHAH edited both the critically acclaimed Dragon Ladies- Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire and Between Fear and Hope- A Decade of Peace Activism. A former editor at South End Press and Nuclear Times Magazine, Shah is an independent journalist whose writing appears in The Nation, The Progressive, Salon, and elsewhere.
This is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant - Shah writes beautifully, with dispassionate, elegant clarity - and it is all the more powerful for it. - The Guardian Riveting... an informative, startling and necessary work. - Roy Morrison, author of Ecological Democracy The facts and figures of the world's most important energy resource come alive. Shah helps us understand the energy subsidy oil gives our society, how our economy is dependent on it, and what the real ramifications are of turning the key in the ignition. - Julian Darley, author of High Noon for Natural Gas