Study shows how to cut foreign oil dependency

Monday, April 10, 2006

From a story posted on pnnonline.org:

America could end the need to import fossil fuels from the Persian Gulf region by 2020, according to a study developed by Professor Daniel M. Kammen and his colleagues at U.C. Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).

Titled "Towards Energy Independence in 2025," the study details immediate and long-term measures that, applied to the nation's transportation sector and fleet of power plants, could reduce oil imports by more than 30 percent within twenty years. These measures could deliver daily oil use savings of more than 22 percent - equivalent to the 6.3 million barrels a day America currently imports from the Persian Gulf.