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Imagine a world in which America resolved to overcome the energy-climate change crisis that threatens its national security. We can build that world today with informed choices and political will.
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• How business can make money today using existing renewable energy sources and technologies
• Why “clean coal” is an illusion
• Why ethanol has a role as a transitional fuel on our way to a hydrogen economy
• Why nuclear power will only make a bad situation much worse
• How we can revive Detroit by building 100 mpg fuel-efficient cars today
• How we can create millions of jobs, strengthen our economy, and make America safe today
We’re glad to see how close the Obama Administration’s energy plan is to the Academy’s, as laid out in its 2007 book, Freedom from Mid-East Oil, by Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., Rinaldo S. Brutoco, J.D., and James A. Cusumano, Ph.D.
- We called for reducing oil imports by 2015 by 5 million barrels a day, the amount we imported from the Middle East in 2005. The President, starting later, calls for reducing within 10 years more oil than we now import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.
- We called for increasing the fuel economy standards for new passenger vehicles to 40 mpg by 2015. In January, the President ordered new rules to implement Congress' fleetwide standard of 35 mpg by 2020. In September, he moved that schedule up four years under a proposed rule that would also require passenger vehicles to get 38 mpg by 2016.
- We called for putting at least 1 million hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles a year on the road by 2015, along with 100,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The President calls for putting 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015.
- We called for producing 20% of our electricity from renewable resources by 2020. The President calls for producing 10% of our electricity from renewable sources by 2012, and 25% by 2025.
- We called for a nationwide cap-and-trade system or carbon tax, and urged a hard look at the tax (a cap without the trade), realizing that the tax might not be politically feasible. The President calls for a nationwide cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gases 80% by 2050.
- We called for recognizing that energy efficiency—“negawatts”—are the quickest and cheapest source of energy. The President calls energy efficiency “the cheapest, cleanest, fastest” energy source.
- We called for investing $180 billion to achieve our energy and climate plan, helping to create 2 million jobs and to save another 1 million. The President calls for spending $150 billion to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future, helping to create 5 million jobs.
We differ with the President on his call to use public resources to develop and deploy clean coal technology, which we think is not the answer. We also believe that when he takes a hard look at nuclear power, he will realize that it creates unacceptable risks to our planet and actually undercuts our ability to solve our intertwined energy and climate change crises.