Leading by Example: How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

Summary

From the rear cover

America is just one crisis away from an energy emergency that will completely disrupt daily life, sharply increase energy prices, and perhaps even lead to a military intervention in world energy markets. Yet, as households and businesses suffer the impacts of our nation's worsening oil addiction, and as the world's atmosphere clogs with carbon pollution, there is just one bold, integrated, comprehensive energy program on the table. This is it.

In Leading by Example, Governor Richardson offers a positive, practical vision of the future that will eliminate our nation's crippling dependence on foreign oil, while rapidly cutting our climate-changing emissions. The program relies on new technologies and domestic energy sources, from renewables to efficiency and plug-in cars, that will grow the American economy while protecting our national security and restoring an oil-free foreign policy. Bill Richardson sees a thriving nation, invigorated by new opportunities, free from the constant threat of interrupted oil supplies, and finding innovative solutions for slowing and reversing global climate change. America will once again lead the world toward peace and prosperity. But to achieve these changes, America must move quickly.

Calling on every man, woman, and child in the United States to take part in an ambitious nationwide campaign to achieve energy independence in the very near future, Richardson lays out the details of a plan designed to:

Cut oil dependence 50 percent by 2020, including an 80 percent reduction in oil imports

Reduce carbon emissions 20 to 30 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050

Quickly bring new automotive technologies to market

Develop, manufacture, and export energy-saving technologies

Decrease the need for American forces to defend world oil supplies

Meet energy demand much more efficiently across the economy

Develop, manufacture, and export energy-saving technologies

Restore America's leadership role in the world, from energy to climate to world peace and security

Governor Richardson knows that the American people are ready for change, eager to play their part, and impatient for leadership that addresses the energy-environment-security nexus as a whole. In Leading by Example, he sets the standard for a fully developed, well-considered energy plan--one that demands committed presidential leadership and deserves the support of the American people.

From the jacket flap

America is just one crisis away from an energy emergency that will completely disrupt daily life, sharply increase energy prices, and perhaps even lead to a military intervention in world energy markets. Yet, as households and businesses suffer the impacts of our nation's worsening oil addiction, and as the world's atmosphere clogs with carbon pollution, there is just one bold, integrated, comprehensive energy program on the table. This is it.

In Leading by Example, Governor Richardson offers a positive, practical vision of the future that will eliminate our nation's crippling dependence on foreign oil, while rapidly cutting our climate-changing emissions. The program relies on new technologies and domestic energy sources, from renewables to efficiency and plug-in cars, that will grow the American economy while protecting our national security and restoring an oil-free foreign policy. Bill Richardson sees a thriving nation, invigorated by new opportunities, free from the constant threat of interrupted oil supplies, and finding innovative solutions for slowing and reversing global climate change. America will once again lead the world toward peace and prosperity. But to achieve these changes, America must move quickly.

Calling on every man, woman, and child in the United States to take part in an ambitious nationwide campaign to achieve energy independence in the very near future, Richardson lays out the details of a plan designed to:

Cut oil dependence 50 percent by 2020, including an 80 percent reduction in oil imports

Reduce carbon emissions 20 to 30 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050

Quickly bring new automotive technologies to market

Develop, manufacture, and export energy-saving technologies

Decrease the need for American forces to defend world oil supplies

Meet energy demand much more efficiently across the economy

Develop, manufacture, and export energy-saving technologies

Restore America's leadership role in the world, from energy to climate to world peace and security

Governor Richardson knows that the American people are ready for change, eager to play their part, and impatient for leadership that addresses the energy-environment-security nexus as a whole. In Leading by Example, he sets the standard for a fully developed, well-considered energy plan--one that demands committed presidential leadership and deserves the support of the American people.

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Citations

• Publishers Weekly, 09/03/2007, Page 52