This is the first book of Friedman's that I have read, though I read him regularly in the NYT, and seeing him speak made me like him more rather than less, so I knew we were like thinkers and I respect his smarts. The book is really about why we need to care about the kind of energy we make, how we produce it, how we distribute it, and then make it available for the world--that it is the only option for us, and maybe in innovating these solutions,w e will save ourselves in the world market as well. We are starting WAY behind in the game, but we have been able to make big strides when we have been in this situation before, so there is hope, but not time. At first I thought "this is all stuff I know" and that it was a bit too liberal for someone like my father to be able to read without reacting to the occasional interpretations he makes that a Republican would disagree with--but I think it approaches the subject of carbon dioxide from a number of different modes and so spirals around a central theme to the point where when you close the book you feel a sense of urgency and hope and relief that we got Barack.