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

“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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Current Natural Gas Vehicle Statistics

Quit Wasting Natural Gas In 2007 5.3 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.

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 2009 24 federal agency and 25 congressional committees

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

References NVG global http://www.iangv.org/current-ngv-stats/ Bryce, Robert. Power Hungry, The Myths Of. Public Affairs, 2013. Print.