1. Chapter 29: Rethink “green” and a Few other Suggestion
Written by Robert Bryce
Presented by: Stephen Berwick

2. “Green” is not cheap or easy
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-Voltaire
“ All the blather about “green” has caused the delusion that we can get energy on the cheap with out environmental impact at all.”
$5.5 trillion will be spent by the International Energy agency between now and 2030 on renewable energy.
By 2030 renewable energy could provide 10% of the worlds primary energy needs.

3. N2N Plan
Promote Natural gas and nuclear power through target use of tax incentives
Encourage oil and gas production in the U.S.
Continue promoting energy efficiency
Continue working on renewables and energy storage technologies such as batteries and compressed air energy

4. Support the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
IAEA is the organization that is supposed to regulate and police the nuclear center
On September 7, 2002 Bush falsely claim that the IAEA issued a report saying that Iraq was just six month away from developing a nuclear weapon
January 27, 2003 the director general of the IAEA told the UN that there was no evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq
Right now it is under funded and lack political power

5. End Iowa’s Monopoly on the Presidential Primaries
Iowa is too small and agriculturally focus for the first primary
The ethanol debate became a litmus test in the last election
Obama was Pro ethanol before running
Hillary became Pro ethanol after becoming a presidential candidate as did McCain.

6. Elect More Engineers and Push Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
U.S. run by lawyers. who write “super-long super-complex bills.”
The 2005 Energy policy Act was 550 pages
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act 310 pages
The 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act 1428 pages
In 2009 only three senator had engineering degrees
USA has 1.1 million lawyers, which is about 1 lawyer for every 280 citizen.
France has 46,000 lawyers, which is about 1 lawyer for every 1,300 citizen.

7. Emulate Iran and France
Iran and France embraced Nuclear and Natural Gas
In 2008 Natural gas provides 15% of France’s energy, and 55% of Iran’s
In 1973 nuclear power provided about 2% of France’s energy in 2008 it provided 39%
Today nuclear power provide nearly 80% of France’s power
Iran has embraced Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs)
Iran had 1.5 million NGVs in mid 2009

8. Current Natural Gas Vehicle Statistics

9. Quit Wasting Natural Gas
In trillion cubic feet of natural gas were burned as waste
That is equivalent to 30% of the European unions total annual gas needs
On average the world burn 14.5 billion cubic feet of gas. That is equal to 2.6 million barrels of oil worth the energy.

10. Put someone in charge of energy
“Energy policy is like the weather: Everybody complains about it, but no one does anything about it.”
In 1971 energy policies were determined by 48 federal agency and 14 congressional committees
In federal agency and 25 congressional committees

11. Questions Q. how much Natural gas was burned as waste in 2007.
A. 5.3 trillion cubic feet
Q. what is the ratio of lawyers to citizens that the USA has.
A. Approximately 1-280

12. References NVG global http://www.iangv.org/current-ngv-stats/
Bryce, Robert. Power Hungry, The Myths Of. Public Affairs, Print.