Oil Endgame-Implementation and Legislation

Winning the Oil Endgame: Frequently Asked Questions: Download PDF... (PDF-95K); Q: What's the central thesis of your new report, Winning the Oil Endgame?; A: Over the next few decades, the U.S. can get completely off oil and revitalize the economy. Since this transition can be profitable, it will be led by business. Our business strategy for adopting innovative technologies and new business models will increase national competitiveness and improve national security. Our study does five things for the first time (to our knowledge): it adds up the modern potential to save and substitute for oil; shows how to eliminate not just imported but also domestic oil; shows how to do so at a profit (making sense even for oil companies); shows how to do it through free enterprise; and shows how to integrate civilian with military needs and opportunities to eliminate oil dependence.

Vehicle Efficiency Incentives: An Update on Feebates for States: Download PDF... (PDF-210K); The lack of federal initiative on global warming and oil dependence has led states to consider their own options to address these problems. An approach that has been considered many times in the United States over the past fifteen years, but never implemented, is a feebate program, i.e. a sliding scale of fees and rebates for the purchase of new vehicles based on fuel consumption or emissions of greenhouse gases. Feebates shift the market towards green vehicles by providing an incentive for manufacturers to adopt cost effective efficiency technologies; by mitigating the market failure arising from consumer undervaluation of the fuel savings associated with efficient vehicles; and by raising consumer awareness of the relationship between fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy For Tomorrow: Download PDF... (PDF-55K); Hawaii relies on imported petroleum for nearly 90% of its energy needs. To make sure there is energy for tomorrow—it is important to properly marshal our resources today and stimulate the production and use of biofuels to reduce our addiction to foreign oil. For years there has been much talk about weaning our state off oil and creating a renewable energy industry—cheap oil prices has blocked implementation of meaningful bioenergy policies. It is time to make Hawaii energy self sufficient.

Energy For Tomorrow—Outline Summary of Comprehensive Energy Package: Download PDF... (PDF-80K); This package comprehensively addresses Hawaii's decades-long overdependence on imported oil for its energy by establishing a bold, strategic energy policy framework of integrated measures to encourage and support market-based development of reliable, cost-effective, and self-reliant energy systems. The package's integrated, coordinated, and complementary measures constitute a network of policy pathways to achieve results over the near-, mid-, and long-term. This energy vision will enable Hawaii to attain a niche leadership role in the global hydrogen energy economy by accelerating the development of the state's own indigenous, renewable energy resources.