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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sandalow, David. Freedom from oil. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008 (OCoLC)651801344 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Sandalow |
| ISBN: | 0071489061 9780071489065 |
| OCLC Number: | 153581476 |
| Description: | xiii, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. The problem -- General -- Memorandum from the President -- Memorandum from the Counselor -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Energy : ten facts about oil -- National security -- Memorandum from the National Security Adviser -- "General fights for renewable energy" (Profile : Gen. Richard Zilmer) -- Environment -- Memorandum from the Chair, Council on Environmental Quality -- Memorandum from the Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency -- "Messenger from the North" (Profile : Sarah James) -- Economic -- Memorandum from the Chair, National Economic Council -- "Fred Smith on the Move" (Profile : Frederick W. Smith) -- Trapped in the 1970s -- Note from the President -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Energy -- pt. II. Solutions -- Plug-in cars -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Transportation -- Note from the President -- "From showroom to the big screen" (Profile : Chelsea Sexton) -- "Electric entrepreneur" (Profile : Martin Eberhard) -- Biofuels -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Agriculture -- Memorandum from the U.S. Trade Representative -- Note from the President -- "I am Indy" (Profile : Buddy Rice) -- "From high tech to ethanol" (Profile : Vinod Khosla) -- Fuel efficiency -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Transportation -- Note from the President -- "Man with a mission" (Profile : Jerome Ringo) -- Memorandum from the Chair, Council of Economic Advisers : gasoline tax -- Coal -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Energy -- Note from the President -- "Jon Tester, senator-farmer" (Profile : Jon Tester) -- Hydrogen -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Energy -- Note from the President -- Smart growth -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development -- Note from the President -- "A visit to Biotown, USA" (Profile : Reynolds, Indiana) -- Strategic petroleum reserve -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Energy -- Diplomatic strategy -- Memorandum from the Secretary of State -- pt III. Decision -- General -- Memorandum from the Chief of Staff -- Role of government -- Note from the President -- Memorandum from the Secretary of Energy -- A scarce resource -- Memorandum from the Counselor -- Speech language -- Note from the President -- Memorandum from the Director, Office of Speechwriting -- Final choices -- Memorandum from the Vice President -- Note for the President from the Chief of Staff -- Announcement -- White House press release -- The President's Speech to the Nation -- Notes. |
| Responsibility: | David Sandalow. |
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Abstract:
Presents a narrative of debates at the highest levels of government. This work dramatizes how the President could shape a plan for ending the United States' addiction to oil - a plan both Democrats and Republicans could rally around.
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