How Will America Survive Without Foreign Oil

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How Will America Survive Without Foreign Oil?

• Ideas for Today and Tomorrow

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America is the Worlds Largest Consumer of Energy

• America has approximately 5 of the worlds
  population
• We consume approximately 30 of the worlds
  energy
• Americans consume more than twice the energy of
  citizens of industrialized nations

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More than 50 of the oil consumed in America is
foreign

• Key suppliers include
• Mexico
• Canada
• Venezuela
• Saudi Arabia
• This dependency costs money

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What Would We Do If This Foreign Oil Was
Disrupted?

• IS THERE A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE?

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EFFICICIENCY IS THE ANSWER
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3 Main Sectors of consumption
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TRANSPORTATION
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Most Petroleum is Used for Transportation
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Todays Situation

• We use 19.5 million barrels of oil a day for
  transportation
• On 2001, more than 10 of our Gross Domestic
  Product was spent on transportation
• Emissions from automobiles emit 22 of Americas
  greenhouse gases a year

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How is transportation inefficient

• Vehicles can be much more fuel efficient
• Lighter materials
• Better engine design
• Fuel additives
• Hybrid Vehicles
• Savings add up
• Money saved each year on fuel
• Money saved on related costs

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Short-term Goals and Caveat

• Increase the use of additives
• Increase minimum MPG on automobiles
• Do both of the above without affecting vehicle
  prices

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Long-Term Strategy

• 55 MPG vehicles within 20 years
• 50 ethanol fuel within 20 years
• Caveat Keep cars safe and powerful

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How Did We Get Here?

• Waste
• No carpooling
• Bigger cars
• Thriving Economy
• Cheap gas
• More powerful cars

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Americans Love Our Cars

• Its a big country
• Were used to the convenience
• The use of private vehicles for transportation is
  going to stay

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We are on the move

• Americans traveled nearly 5 trillion miles in
  1999

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Vehicle use is on the rise
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WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?
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Americans will not kick the car habit in the near
future

• This means the only short-term solution is to
• Demand more efficient vehicles
• Use renewable fuel additives such as ethanol

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Better mileage

• Fuel technology alone can increase economy to 40
  miles per gallon

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The Solution is Simple Corn
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Current ethanol production
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Corn used for ethanol production
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Ethanol is more efficient

• 100 BTUs of energy to produce 135 BTUs of ethanol
• 100 BTUs of energy to produce 85 BTUs of gasoline

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Current vehicles can use it

• Every automobile manufactured for sale in the US
  is capable of running with an ethanol fuel
  additive
• Some diesel engines can even operate with
  mixtures containing as much as 85 ethanol

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Why is it good?

• Its made in America
• Its renewable
• It costs about the same as gasoline
• It burns cleaner
• It prevents freezing gas lines
• We can grow as much as we need

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More Efficient Vehicles

• Increasing fuel use to 55mpg will save 4 billion
  barrels of oil over the next 12 years
• By 2020, we can save 4.8 million barrels a day
  more than we currently import from the Persian
  gulf

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We already have the technology
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The other main use of oil is for production of
other forms of energy

• Heat
• Electricity
• Steam

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More efficient homes less oil needed to create
this energy

• Better construction
• Solar power
• Geothermal heating and cooling
• Wind production
• Lighting

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Insulation savings

• Building super insulated homes use only about
  20 of the energy to heat and cool
• The cost of construction is saved in less than 2
  years

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Where is it lost?
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Simple solutions can equal big energy savings

• Weather stripping
• Double pane windows
• Foam core doors
• Attic fans
• Higher quality insulation
• Southern windows

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Solar power for heat and electricity
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Two types of solar

• Electricity production
• Heat production

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Making your own electricity

• A midsize photovoltaic solar panel will
• Cost approx 10,000 after incentives
• Produce 24 of the electricity used by the
  average household
• Eliminate 7600lbs of CO2 emissions in one year

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The Sun can heat...and cool

• Solar energy is easily converted to heat
• It can also be used in a system that cools

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The steps of solar heating

• The sun heats water between layers of glass or
  other material
• The water is circulated throughout the home
  radiating its heat
• The cooled water is circulated back through the
  glass plates

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Dont forget the swimming pool
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Wind in your home
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Let the Earth heat and power your home
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Other ways to plug the leaks
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Combined Heat and Power
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These systems are readily available

• Normal energy production is 20-30 efficient.
• CHPS are approximately 80 efficient.

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What does it mean?
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Current Legislation

• There is a surprising amount of efficiency
  legislation either on the books or pending in
  Congress

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Energy Interconnect Legislation

• Combined Heat and Power Advancement Act of 2001
• Designed to promote the development of CHP
  systems by providing equal access to the power
  grid

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H.R. 4 of 2001 Residential Energy Tax Credit

• Stuck in committee

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S.828Tax Credit for Energy Efficient Property

• Stuck in committee

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S.804Fuel Efficiency Bill

• Stuck in Committee

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There are currently 12 energy efficiency related
bills pending in the Senate Commerce, Science,
and Transportation Committee
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Where Does That Leave Us?
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Propose More Legislation
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Tax Incentives
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Slowly Regulate Old Technology Out of Existence
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Fund More Research
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We can afford it

• Energy savings will recoup investment costs
• Lower pollution will free up funds for other
  purposes
• Fewer environmental cleanup disasters

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Efficiency is the Answer

• Now and Later