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Freedom from oil : how the next president can end the United States' oil addiction
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Freedom from oil : how the next president can end the United States' oil addiction

Author: David Sandalow
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A White House veteran, Sandalow explores what would happen if the next President made breaking America's addiction to oil a top priority. Offering a window into the White House at work, Sandalow explains the size of the challenge and then offers a message of hope. "This issue unites Americans," he writes. "Game-changing technologies are at hand." Throughout the book, profiles help bring serious policy dialogue to  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sandalow, David.
Freedom from oil.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008
(OCoLC)651801344
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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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  Read more...

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