Like the Exxon Valdez and other oil spills before it, the BP oil blowout has been viewed as a human catastrophe and an environmental nightmare. The catastrophe also illustrates the inexorable link between environmental protection and our future economic prosperity.
It serves as the latest reminder of a failed national energy policy.
Achieving these two complementary goals requires a national energy policy that reduces dependence on fossil fuels and encourages investment in clean energy.
As A31-S5 business leaders focused on meeting environmental and economic challenges, we know that achieving these goals is within our grasp. We already have the technologies and the knowledge; what we need are the policies to bring these technologies to scale.
Right now, our national energy policy amounts to this: For every 10 gallons of gas Americans put in their fuel tanks, six are imported. Every day, more than $1 billion that could be invested in American ingenuity and job creation leaves our shores.
At the same time, our aging electricity infrastructure is supporting dirty fossil fuels that pollute our oceans, our air and the water we drink. They are the No. 1 source of climate-change-causing carbon emissions.
This status quo has become an unsustainable burden on every man, woman and child in this country--not to mention those defending U.S. interests abroad. That money should instead be invested here at home--to spur innovation, improve infrastructure and put the United States back on a path of economic growth.
We should be building our own clean energy industry--for greater PA3635U-1BRM energy and national security.
This challenge is really an opportunity to drive the economy and create a whole new constellation of companies and jobs here in America.
The clean energy and climate legislation now before the Senate is a good start.
We urge the Senate to strengthen and pass it. In addition to lowering our overall energy demand through efficiency and spurring new clean energy projects, it can help cut fossil fuel consumption by promoting the development of next-generation transportation technologies--including Gateway W32044L electric vehicles and renewable, low-carbon fuels.
We know this can be done because we are in the business of turning these goals into reality. And more and more entrepreneurs join our ranks every day--proof that being responsible stewards of our environment can pay.
Solar power, for example, is an increasingly cost-effective form of clean energy. The 14 solar power plants that BrightSource Energy is building across the Southwest would generate 2,610 megawatts of energy--enough to power more than 900,000 homes--while providing roughly 6,000 jobs. At the same time, the W32066LD plants won't be spewing the 80 million tons of CO2 that this would usually entail. It is like taking more than 13 million cars off the road.
Microalgae are single-cell organisms that can be used to convert plant material into clean, renewable diesel and jet fuels. Biorefineries that use this A31-W5F technology being developed by Solazyme would generate thousands of new jobs and produce enough fuels to reduce the overall carbon footprint by at least 85 percent over petroleum-based fuels.
All-electric cars are also becoming more affordable.
Better Place is working with automakers, battery suppliers and A42-W3 energy companies around the world to help production of all-electric cars by establishing a network that would make zero-oil, zero-emissions cars less expensive and more convenient to use.
Reducing dependence on oil is not just an aspiration. It is an imperative to keep the United States growing and strong.
Technically, we have what it takes to get there.
Our companies--and hundreds like them across the nation--are proving it every day. With a stable and supportive policy framework in place, we know we can get VGP-BPS2B done.
It serves as the latest reminder of a failed national energy policy.
Achieving these two complementary goals requires a national energy policy that reduces dependence on fossil fuels and encourages investment in clean energy.
As A31-S5 business leaders focused on meeting environmental and economic challenges, we know that achieving these goals is within our grasp. We already have the technologies and the knowledge; what we need are the policies to bring these technologies to scale.
Right now, our national energy policy amounts to this: For every 10 gallons of gas Americans put in their fuel tanks, six are imported. Every day, more than $1 billion that could be invested in American ingenuity and job creation leaves our shores.
At the same time, our aging electricity infrastructure is supporting dirty fossil fuels that pollute our oceans, our air and the water we drink. They are the No. 1 source of climate-change-causing carbon emissions.
This status quo has become an unsustainable burden on every man, woman and child in this country--not to mention those defending U.S. interests abroad. That money should instead be invested here at home--to spur innovation, improve infrastructure and put the United States back on a path of economic growth.
We should be building our own clean energy industry--for greater PA3635U-1BRM energy and national security.
This challenge is really an opportunity to drive the economy and create a whole new constellation of companies and jobs here in America.
The clean energy and climate legislation now before the Senate is a good start.
We urge the Senate to strengthen and pass it. In addition to lowering our overall energy demand through efficiency and spurring new clean energy projects, it can help cut fossil fuel consumption by promoting the development of next-generation transportation technologies--including Gateway W32044L electric vehicles and renewable, low-carbon fuels.
We know this can be done because we are in the business of turning these goals into reality. And more and more entrepreneurs join our ranks every day--proof that being responsible stewards of our environment can pay.
Solar power, for example, is an increasingly cost-effective form of clean energy. The 14 solar power plants that BrightSource Energy is building across the Southwest would generate 2,610 megawatts of energy--enough to power more than 900,000 homes--while providing roughly 6,000 jobs. At the same time, the W32066LD plants won't be spewing the 80 million tons of CO2 that this would usually entail. It is like taking more than 13 million cars off the road.
Microalgae are single-cell organisms that can be used to convert plant material into clean, renewable diesel and jet fuels. Biorefineries that use this A31-W5F technology being developed by Solazyme would generate thousands of new jobs and produce enough fuels to reduce the overall carbon footprint by at least 85 percent over petroleum-based fuels.
All-electric cars are also becoming more affordable.
Better Place is working with automakers, battery suppliers and A42-W3 energy companies around the world to help production of all-electric cars by establishing a network that would make zero-oil, zero-emissions cars less expensive and more convenient to use.
Reducing dependence on oil is not just an aspiration. It is an imperative to keep the United States growing and strong.
Technically, we have what it takes to get there.
Our companies--and hundreds like them across the nation--are proving it every day. With a stable and supportive policy framework in place, we know we can get VGP-BPS2B done.
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