The Greenest Path

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The Greenest Path

• Nathanael Greene
• October 4, 2006

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The Debate Is Over
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We Need Big Solutions, Fast, and Lots of em
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The Keys to Success

• More efficient appliances
• Green buildings
• Hybrids
• Wind power
• Biofuels
• Carbon capture disposal

Appliance efficiency standards, CAFE, RD
Electricity (energy services), gasoline
(mobility), appliances, cars, power plants
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Another Way to Look at It
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The Path Is Straight forward, If Well Take It

• We have the technology and the know-how to reduce
  global warming pollution safely and affordably,
  starting right now.
• That we can does not mean that we will, certainly
  not fast enough.
• No technology is without impacts
• We need to choose and we need to mitigate and
  manage the impacts

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Getting on the Green and Narrow

• Be careful what you wish for
• Avoid picking technologies, pick performance and
  encourage competition
• We need performance based standards and
  requirements to move old technology out and new
  technology in
• Performance based incentives to harness
  competition to get there cheapest and fastest

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Biofuels Can Be a Major Part of the Solution

• Role of Biomass in Americas Energy Future, NRDC
  working with team of technical experts from
• Dartmouth (biological processing), Princeton
  (thermochemical processing), Michigan State
  (co-products), Oak Ridge National Lab (switch
  grass), NREL (economics), Argonne (lifecycle
  analysis), Union of Concerned Scientists (oil
  efficiency forecasts)
• Growing Energy, December 2004
• A balanced package of fuel economy, smart growth
  and biofuels, especially ethanol from cellulose,
  provide one path to breaking our oil addiction
  and an 80 reduction in transportation related
  global warming pollution

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We Can Virtually Eliminate Our Demand for
Gasoline by 2050

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There Are Many Paths
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Some Paths Lead Backwards
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Vehicles and Fuels Choices for American Security
Act of 2005

• Senate bill (S. 2025) sponsored by
• Senators Bayh (D-IN), Brownback (R-KS), Coleman
  (R-MN), Graham (R-SC), Lieberman (D-CT), Lugar
  (R-IN), Obama (D-IL) and Salazar (D-CO)
• Companion House bill (H.R. 4409) sponsored by
• Vice Chair of the Republican Leadership
  Conference Rep. Kingston (R-GA), Rep. Saxton
  (R-NJ), and Rep. Engel (D-NY) and 22 other
  cosponsors
• National oil savings requirement 2.5 million
  bbl/day day in 2015, increasing over time,
  achieved through a menu of existing and new
  authorities and incentives
• Federal manufacturer retooling incentives for
  production of efficient vehicles and authority to
  set efficiency standards for tires and heavy duty
  trucks
• A suite of federal incentives and requirements to
  advance the use of domestically produced,
  renewable fuels and alternatives to driving

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Our Partners A Growing List of Bill Supporters

Supporters Set America Free, 20/20
Vision Alliance to Save Energy, Apollo Alliance,
CAP, CFA, Environmental Action, ELPC, PIRG, UCS,
E2
Prospects Labor UAW Farmers
NCGA, RFA, EFC, Farmers Union,
NACD Business airlines, BENS,
clean tech, retailers Faith based Center for
Religious Freedom, NRPE States
Groups in South MW
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A National Strategy Pass the Oil Savings Bill