A Detailed Energy Blueprint
Yesterday we released a blueprint, with 75 specific policy recommendations, for securing America's energy future. You can find the blueprint here, below is what some news outlets had to say:
Republicans in Congress liked to tout an all-of-the-above energy policy. They have nothing on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy today unveiled its detailed energy prescriptions for the next administration, putting some red meat on the "13 pillars" the group published this summer in an open letter to the President and Congress.
The smorgasboard of energy proposals calls for greater government support for energy efficiency, renewable energy, an international climate-change accord, more domestic oil production, more nuclear power, more clean coal, alternative fuels for transport, and bigger and better energy infrastructure.
Retired Marine General James Jones, president and CEO if the Institute, called it "critical" that the next president make energy policy a priority, and called it a "national security issue of the highest order."
(Environmental Capital)
Colorado State University's work on renewable energy continues to garner national recognition.
Tuesday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy used CSU as a backdrop as it revealed its suggestions on how to wean America off of foreign oil.
"With a challenge this great and urgent, we must encourage new partnerships, like those taking place in Colorado, that bring together the best of government, industry and academia to create cutting-edge technology solutions to our long-term challenges," said General James Jones, president of the Chamber’s energy institute.
Jones, Colorado Senator Wayne Allard (R) and several others toured CSU’s Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory (EECL) Tuesday afternoon prior to the Chamber’s announcement.
EECL is home to several renewable projects including one that’s looking into the mass production of algae, which can be used as a biofuel. (9News.com)
"Today's high gas prices are not the problem. They are merely a symptom to a larger problem," Jones said of the need for better energy sources.
Jones recommended doubling funding for the Department of Energy's Buildings Program as a way to promote energy efficiency and creating new tax credits for plug-in hybrid vehicles.
The 75 recommendations fall under 13 broader categories, including reducing the environmental impact of energy consumption and production, increasing renewable sources of electricity and expanding nuclear energy use.
Those changes will come through better collaboration between government, private and educational sectors, he said. (The Coloradoan)
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