Better Energy Solutions

There’s a better way to repower America using our ingenuity.  We must build a clean energy economy while preserving our most treasured wild places.  The barrels of oil saved through conservation exceed by five-fold the potential from oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge.

During the last two years, the U.S. has booked an 11.3 billion barrel reduction in estimated U.S. oil imports between 2011 and 2030 due to lower oil consumption.  Energy conservation will produce 5x more energy than the 2.1 billion barrels of oil that EIA estimates might be discovered and produced from the Arctic Refuge coastal plain region by 2030.  Click here for Fact Sheet or Full Technical Report by R.A. Fineberg.

For More Information, check out these other sources:

Clean Energy: The Solution to High Gas Prices  Fact Sheet (NRDC 2008)

Clean Energy: Saves Americans Money  Fact Sheet (NRDC 2008)

Arctic Refuge Drilling and Gas Prices: Not a Solution, Now or Later (2008)  Proponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge opportunistically and incorrectly point to rising gasoline prices as a reason to drill for oil in one of America’s last wild places. If oil were discovered in commercial quantities, it would take 10 years before a single drop could be produced. Once in production, Arctic Refuge oil would amount to a drop in the bucket of the oil market. Recent (2007) U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data indicates that in 2030, when oil discovered in the Arctic Refuge would be near peak production levels, the effect at the gas pump would be about two pennies per gallon.