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The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, by Peter Huber and Mark Mills (Basic, 214 pp., $26)

PETER HUBER is a bright star in the popular world of ideas. His column in Forbes is always provocative and interesting. His previous books have played a major role in defining smart conservative thinking about junk science (Galileo’s Revenge), tort reform (Liability), and environmentalism (Hard Green). His latest book, this time with coauthor Mark Mills, targets the energy scold, a fellow who has once again found his day in the sun given the recent rise in energy prices and the calamitous mishaps in California and elsewhere. Huber and Mills indeed draw blood, but for all of the clever insights therein (and there are many), there is also much in The Bottomless Well that is confused and flatly wrong.

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The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, by Peter Huber and Mark Mills (Basic, 214 pp., $26)

PETER HUBER is a bright star in the popular world of ideas. His column in Forbes is always provocative and interesting. His previous books have played a major role in defining smart conservative thinking about junk science (Galileo’s Revenge), tort reform (Liability), and environmentalism (Hard Green). His latest book, this time with coauthor Mark Mills, targets the energy scold, a fellow who has once again found his day in the sun given the recent rise in energy prices and the calamitous mishaps in California and elsewhere. Huber and Mills indeed draw blood, but for all of the clever insights therein (and there are many), there is also much in The Bottomless Well that is confused and flatly wrong.