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Lisa Wright, Energy Legislative Assistant Congressman Roscoe Bartlett www.bartlett.house.gov/EnergyUpdates

Politics and the Impact on an Energy Solution Frontiers of Technology Transfer Federal Laboratory Consortium Mid-Atlantic Region Annual Conference September 16, 2008 Cumberland, Maryland. Lisa Wright, Energy Legislative Assistant Congressman Roscoe Bartlett www.bartlett.house.gov/EnergyUpdates.

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Lisa Wright, Energy Legislative Assistant Congressman Roscoe Bartlett www.bartlett.house.gov/EnergyUpdates

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  1. Politics and the Impact on an Energy SolutionFrontiers of Technology TransferFederal Laboratory ConsortiumMid-Atlantic Region Annual ConferenceSeptember 16, 2008Cumberland, Maryland Lisa Wright, Energy Legislative Assistant Congressman Roscoe Bartlett www.bartlett.house.gov/EnergyUpdates

  2. The World According to Oil

  3. The United States and Oil • 2%of World Reserves • 8%of World Oil Production • 5%of World’s Population • U.S. Consumes25%of World’s Oil Production • More than60% imported • 70%of oilis usedfortransportation • U.S. transportationis dependent upon oil for 97 percent of its energy – a proportionunchangedsince 1974.

  4. Peak Oil – Are we there yet?

  5. Five Federal Government Peak Oil Reports • DOE Report #1 “Hirsch,”February 2005 • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,September 2005 • DOE Report #2,July 8, 2006 • Government Accountability Office (GAO),March 29, 2007 • National Petroleum Council,Fall, 2007

  6. 2004 US Energy Consumption http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/trends/highlight1.html

  7. Prospects for Energy Policy Changes New Laws: ARPA-E Higher CAFÉ MPG Standards NEW Bipartisan Consensus: Drilling can be PART of the Solution Prospects for Laws by THIS Congress: ►Cantwell-Ensign Renewable & Energy Efficiency Tax Credits Prospects for Laws by the Next Admin. & Congress ►H.R. 6709 – Abercrombie-Peterson Drilling in OCS, not ANWR

  8. For More Information: http://www.bartlett.house.gov/EnergyUpdates Lisa Wright Energy Legislative Assistant Congressman Roscoe Bartlett 2412 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515 202-225-2721 Lisa.Wright@mail.house.gov

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