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The countdown is almost over: tomorrow, policymakers, industry leaders and business executives will gather to discuss the intensifying threats posed by our nation’s oil dependence, and consider solutions that will strengthen o...
Posted Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 12:32 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
A well meaning concept is being applied in the Senate Energy Committee in a way that will unreasonably block robust bipartisan energy security measures. The idea is facially attractive: any new program moving through the commi...
Posted Thursday, July 7th, 2011 at 5:35 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Legislation
In a "first for the Senate, and a first for Facebook," Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Member on the Foreign Relations Committee, will announce introduction of his Practical Energy Plan exclusively on Facebook this morning at ...
Posted Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 6:19 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Environment, Oil, Oil Dependence
The U.S. military is the single largest industrial consumer of oil in the world. On an annual basis, it consumes approximately 125 million barrels of oil. The vast majority of U.S. aircraft, tanks and vehicles run on petroleum...
Posted Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 at 6:16 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Policy, Renewables
As readers of EPIC know, the issue of energy security is not taken lightly. Short of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists, energy security is the top threat facing the nation. SAFE’s team of policy and legislativ...
Posted Friday, June 17th, 2011 at 10:24 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Oil Dependence
If we need any further proof that America’s oil dependence keeps us beholden to outside players, we can look to comments made by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal earlier this week. Voicing what can be interpreted as the...
Posted Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 10:02 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Security, Oil Prices
Robert Burns of the AP has a very important story today on our increasingly close defense-related ties with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is also interesting that the news preceding today's POTUS speech on the Middle East was ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 1:24 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have continued to charge ahead on energy issues this week, with the passage of two more domestic production bills in the House and the introduction of electric vehicle legislation in the Senate.
As par...
Posted Friday, May 13th, 2011 at 2:03 pm | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, Legislation, National Security
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