ABSTRACT
Energy services are critically important for human well-being and prosperity. They provide comfort, convenience, health and safety, mobility, and labor productivity and employment. In essential ways, energy is necessary (if not sufficient) for all these aspects of our quality of life, so much so that U.S. citizens often consider energy an entitlement, not a commodity (Aronson et al. 1984). Energy supply is expected of our national and regional institutions, and we tend to hold those institutions accountable if supplies are inadequate.
