Energy Independence in Our Lifetimes?

The Rocky Mountain Institute claims to have developed a “market-based, innovation-driven” approach to ensure U.S. energy independence within the next few decades.

“Winning the Oil Endgame proves that at an average of $12 per barrel (in 200 dollars), the United States can save half its oil usage through efficiency, then substitute biofuels and saved natural gas for the rest --- all this without taxation or new federal regulation,” the institute says.

Needless to say, RMI isn’t the only think tank ruminating about energy independence. University of Tennessee researchers Burton English and Daniel De La Torre Ugarte are working on a project exploring the merits of growing switchgrass an energy-producing crop --- one of several forms of biomass.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at September 22, 2004 03:45 PM | TrackBack