Presentation: Freedom from Oil

Freedom from Oil—How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction

Over-dependence on oil—whether imported or otherwise—is a major issue confronting the United States. Whether we approach that dependence from an economic, environmental, or security standpoint, this is an issue that demands our attention now. The current President has called our dependence on oil an "addiction." In this light, our speaker, David Sandalow, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will address how the next President can enable us to avoid the need for the next "fix." Everyone has their preferred solution, but what will really work, both politically as well as in practice? For example, the new Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandates higher CAFE standards and steep increases in bio-fuel production—will this be sufficient to solve the problem? Come and find out. Mr. Sandalow has recently written a highly-engaging and wonderfully-researched book, Freedom from Oil, which will serve as one of the foundations for his talk.

Thursday, January 24, 2008 from 8:00am - 9:30am
Farragut Center Bldg., 1725 Eye St., NW
Washington, DC 20006

About the Speaker:
David B. Sandalow is energy & environment scholar and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill, October 2007). Mr. Sandalow is chair of the Energy & Climate Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Mr. Sandalow has served as assistant secretary of state for oceans, environment & science; senior director for environmental affairs, National Security Council; associate director for the global environment, White House Council on Environmental Quality; and executive vice president, World Wildlife Fund-U.S. His opinion pieces and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Science, and many other periodicals.

Mr. Sandalow has been a Stimson Fellow at Yale University; commencement speaker at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resource & the Environment; member of the Sustainable Development Roundtable at the OECD; member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Environmental Law; and co-chair of the ABA's Annual Conference on Environmental Law. He is a member of the board of First Voice International and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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