Author: Germán Vergara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108918077
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Around the 1830s, parts of Mexico began industrializing using water and wood. By the 1880s, this model faced a growing energy and ecological bottleneck. By the 1950s, fossil fuels powered most of Mexico's economy and society. Looking to the north and across the Atlantic, late nineteenth-century officials and elites concluded that fossil fuels would solve Mexico's energy problem and Mexican industry began introducing coal. But limited domestic deposits and high costs meant that coal never became king in Mexico. Oil instead became the favored fuel for manufacture, transport, and electricity generation. This shift, however, created a paradox of perennial scarcity amidst energy abundance: every new influx of fossil energy led to increased demand. Germán Vergara shows how the decision to power the country's economy with fossil fuels locked Mexico in a cycle of endless, fossil-fueled growth - with serious environmental and social consequences.
Fueling Mexico
Author: Germán Vergara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108918077
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Around the 1830s, parts of Mexico began industrializing using water and wood. By the 1880s, this model faced a growing energy and ecological bottleneck. By the 1950s, fossil fuels powered most of Mexico's economy and society. Looking to the north and across the Atlantic, late nineteenth-century officials and elites concluded that fossil fuels would solve Mexico's energy problem and Mexican industry began introducing coal. But limited domestic deposits and high costs meant that coal never became king in Mexico. Oil instead became the favored fuel for manufacture, transport, and electricity generation. This shift, however, created a paradox of perennial scarcity amidst energy abundance: every new influx of fossil energy led to increased demand. Germán Vergara shows how the decision to power the country's economy with fossil fuels locked Mexico in a cycle of endless, fossil-fueled growth - with serious environmental and social consequences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108918077
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Around the 1830s, parts of Mexico began industrializing using water and wood. By the 1880s, this model faced a growing energy and ecological bottleneck. By the 1950s, fossil fuels powered most of Mexico's economy and society. Looking to the north and across the Atlantic, late nineteenth-century officials and elites concluded that fossil fuels would solve Mexico's energy problem and Mexican industry began introducing coal. But limited domestic deposits and high costs meant that coal never became king in Mexico. Oil instead became the favored fuel for manufacture, transport, and electricity generation. This shift, however, created a paradox of perennial scarcity amidst energy abundance: every new influx of fossil energy led to increased demand. Germán Vergara shows how the decision to power the country's economy with fossil fuels locked Mexico in a cycle of endless, fossil-fueled growth - with serious environmental and social consequences.
Mexican Fuel Oil
Author: Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Products Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum as fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petroleum as fuel
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
US/Mexico Business
Mexican Fuel Oil
The Shadow of the Wall
Author: Jeremy Slack
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816535590
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Thanks to hundreds of interviews with Mexican deportees, this book puts a real face on discussions of immigration and border policies--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816535590
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Thanks to hundreds of interviews with Mexican deportees, this book puts a real face on discussions of immigration and border policies--Provided by publisher.
Frommer's Mexico on $20 a Day
Author: Tom Brosnahan
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780671524746
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780671524746
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Mexico on Twenty-Five Dollars a Day
Author: George McDonald
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780135795743
Category : Belize
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780135795743
Category : Belize
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Business Mexico
The Natural Gas and LNG Sector in México
Author: Alejandro Díaz-Bautista
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas industry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas industry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Mexico City, Heart of the Eagle
Author: George F. Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description