Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-144).

Machine generated contents note: 1. This is What Peak Oil Looks Like -- Peak Oil: What the Fuss Is About -- Okay, When? -- It Gets Worse -- Making Sense of History as We Live It -- Depletionist Economics -- 2. Technology to the Rescue -- A Brief History of Fracking -- How to Frack a Shale Gas (or Tight Oil) Well -- The Shale Gas Boom, Play by Play -- Tight Oil by the Numbers -- The Claims Rush -- 3.A Treadmill to Hell -- The Boom That Fizzled -- Shale Gas: The Evidence Is In -- Bakken Boom, Bakken Bust -- Will the Rest of the World Get Fracked? -- Why Do Official Agencies So Often Get It Wrong? -- The Bottom Line on Fracking's Potential to Revolutionize Oil and Gas Production -- 4. Fracking Wars, Fracking Casualties -- Water -- Air -- Land -- Climate -- 5. The Economics of Fracking: Who Benefits? -- Communities -- The Nation -- The Oil and Gas Industry -- Wall Street -- 6. Energy Reality -- Other Unconventional Hydrocarbons -- Geology versus Technology -- Renewable Energy -- Energy scenarios -- a mirage distracts us from hydrocarbon rehab.

Examines "fracking from both economic and environmental perspectives, informed by ... analysis of shale gas and oil drilling data"--Page 4 of cover.