At the moment the motor fuel industry is meeting environmental minimums and exceeding the energy independence ones.
Again, the government rode to the rescue by accelerating the mandates in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
In just the Bush years alone, Washington enacted two major pieces of omnibus energy legislation, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
But the fact of the matter is, is that if we don't think about using energy more efficiently, then we're not going to solve the climate change problem and we're not going to solve the energy independence problem.
In just the Bush years alone, Washington enacted two major pieces of legislation, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, both of which had major impacts on how energy companies could, and couldn't, do business.
And Canada is still fighting for an exemption from a rule inserted into the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act that bars the American government from buying fuels whose production causes more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional petroleum sources, as producing oil from tar sands does.
What Bryce is mostly selling is American involvement in the world as the only true path to energy security as a counterweight to the impossible dream of energy independence and the nightmarish policies it has spawned.
The 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act accelerated and expanded the original mandates with the RFS2.
For example, the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act required all new federal buildings to meet the energy performance standards set forth in the 2030 challenge.
With many nations increasingly focused on the notion of energy independence, the pressure to increasingly extract all useful local resources is also increasing.
The renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandates that a portion of the fuel supply be composed of an alternative fuel, in this case advanced biofuels (similar to the RFS included in the US Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which gradually phases in biofuels over 15 years).
Energy policy, the quest for full energy independence, must be weighed against the growing threat of climate change.
But when combined with other factors affecting demand and supply, the concept of energy independence comes into view over the next couple of decades.
Within the next two decades the US will achieve energy independence, and the size of urban populations around the world will rise sharply, the report says.
Just what ethanol does for the cause of energy independence is a matter of controversy.
Because of his leadership, this country is further along on the path to energy independence.
The issue of energy independence is one that America has been talking about since before your parents were your age, since before you were born.
Palin said she and McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, discussed the possibility of her working on the issue of energy independence if she becomes vice president.
One of the reasons I ran for President was to put America on the path to energy independence, and I have not wavered from that commitment.
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Merkel may therefore have gambled on the issue for the sake of German energy independence, calculating that popular sentiment would catch up to the geopolitical needs of the country at some point.
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Mr. Capitalism ought to realize that the case for free trade does not end when BTUs enter into the conversation and that energy independence provides few economic or foreign policy advantages despite widespread belief to the contrary.
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The sticker-shock at the pump is a rude reminder that even though energy independence for the United States is closer at hand than at any other time in the last fifty years, energy is still very much a global commodity.
The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, established this year, has been drumming up support for the administration and Congress to act quickly on climate change, but the committee has no authority to draft legislation.
Although some of the nuclear plants will be put back on line, it seems that the hope that nuclear energy would offer a measure of energy independence in the long term seems forlorn.
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With foreign petroleum products expected to provide 70 percent of U.S. energy needs in the coming decades, energy conservation, independence and diversity have become paramount initiatives.
And for the sake of our planet and our energy independence, we need to begin the transition to cleaner fuels now.
But, it says little about the future prospects for this whole Gulf of Mexico play as a game changer for U.S. energy independence from the increasingly unsettled Middle East where so much of our oil comes from.
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Markey, D-Massachusetts, is Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.
Romney then took the microphone, touting energy independence, improved worker skills and enhanced trade opportunities.
Shale drilling has also created jobs and the prospect of greater energy independence, while raising environmental concerns.
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