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“National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy” Joins Together Historic Group of Leaders to Tackle National Energy Policy Live streaming coverage Monday, Feb. 23 at 10:15 a.m. EST

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The National Clean Energy Project includes a distinguished panel of participants. President Bill
Clinton will address the panelists. Vice President Al Gore will address the panelists and join the
discussion.

The event will kick off with opening remarks from former U.S. Senator and United Nations
Foundation President Timothy Wirth followed by brief comments from the Honorary Chairman of
the event, Senator Reid, Vice President Al Gore, as well as by business leader and clean energy
advocate T. Boone Pickens and Center for American Progress Action Fund President John Podesta.

These speakers will touch on the key themes of the forum, including over coming clean energy
infrastructure challenges, and reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion among the invited participants moderated by Mr. Wirth.

The discussion will focus on guiding the transformation of our nation’s energy policies with particular attention on modernizing the electricity grid, integrating energy efficiency and distributed generation into its operation and regulation, rapidly increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil through natural gas, plug-in hybrids and batteries in the transportation and distribution system.

The National Clean Energy Project builds on the August 2008 “National Clean Energy Summit”
sponsored by Senator Reid, CAPAF, the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The participants in the
summit concluded that inadequate access to transmission was one of the most significant barriers to widespread development of renewable energy.

The goal of this forum will be to discuss the best, most cost-effective options to “green the grid” and lay the groundwork for a broad national consensus between as many key stakeholders as possible on a clean energy agenda that will reduce emissions, increase reliability and affordability, and make us more secure and competitive. This important event will influence the development of a new and better national energy policy and should help speed its adoption.

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Comment by Richard Barnard on November 29, 2009 at 6:01am: The following blog was posted by Mike Johnston November 2008 showing use of CNG with hybrids. As I've stated several times the hybrid electric vehicle can use many alternative energies.

http://push.pickensplan.com/profiles/blogs/2187034:BlogPost:1440748

Richarfd

Comment by Dave Clement on November 19, 2009 at 10:12am: LNG works great for heavy vehicles, it will go farther than CNG, but requires a lot more equipment and a lot more safety training.
CNG can be more universally used accross all spectrums of vehicles easier.

Comment by Richard Barnard on November 19, 2009 at 10:00am: All comments and most blogs are CNG. What about LNG? Kenworth seems to think this is the way to go. I pasted below a Kenworth PDF to view. Let me know the negatives for LNG if any.

http://www.cleanenergyfuels.com/pdf/LNGKenworthWestport.pdf

Richard

Comment by V. H. Hammontree, D. Min. on November 19, 2009 at 9:44am: Well said...time for my weekly call to the "Coal Industry" big three...

Comment by John Wesley Nobles on November 19, 2009 at 9:41am: Come visit us on the Natural Gas Discussion Group.

Comment by John Wesley Nobles on November 19, 2009 at 9:23am: From the tone of Congressman Stark's letter it looks like we have some work to do. This is why we have to stay on the telephones with our representatives. Let us not forget that we are their employers and it is their job to represent us. Sometimes members forget that they have power only because we lend it to them---and we can take it away! We should remind them who they work for!

Comment by Richard Barnard on November 19, 2009 at 8:40am: The latest from CA. Carbon TAX?

Richard Barnard

November 18, 2009

Dear Mr. Barnard:

Thank you for contacting my office in support of H.R. 1835, the NAT GAS Act. I agree with you that our nation can no longer be reliant on oil to meet our transportation needs. I also agree with you that natural gas can play a role as a transitional fuel while we develop cleaner fuels and methods of transportation.

I support some provisions of H.R. 1835, such as encouraging the federal government to purchase vehicles that can run on natural gas. However, I don't think providing large tax credits for purchasing natural gas powered vehicles is the best way to incentivize purchase of natural gas vehicles or other highly efficient vehicles. The real problem is the volatility in the price of conventional gasoline. When conventional gasoline prices are high, consumers will demand alternatives, such better mass transit, more efficient cars, and natural gas vehicles. We saw this happen last summer when gasoline prices were over $4. When the price comes down, however, the demand dries up. With no guarantee or even general idea of what gasoline prices will be in the future, there is no consumer demand for alternatives and no incentive for businesses to invest in new technologies. The answer is to stabilize gasoline prices and steadily increase them through the use of a gas or a carbon tax. If both consumers and businesses know that the price of gasoline will continue to rise, behavior will change and consumers will both demand more clean and efficient transportation and fuel choices and will have more choices made available to them. I've proposed legislation, H.R. 594, the Save Our Climate Act, that would impose a carbon tax with the goal of spurring innovation and combating global warming.

Natural gas vehicles do have a role to play in transforming our energy policy. I appreciate hearing from you and I will keep your thoughts in mind if the NAT GAS Act comes up for a vote.

Sincerely,
Pete Stark
Member of Congress

Comment by V. H. Hammontree, D. Min. on November 18, 2009 at 8:50am: Another reason we need to take energy efficiency seriously.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/18/news/economy/oil.prices.fortune/index.htm

Comment by John Wesley Nobles on November 16, 2009 at 2:55pm: We are almost at the finish line on the NAT GAS ACT, but it is not a done deal yet. Hopefully all of our efforts will help make it law before the end of the year. We have the numbers to tie up all the phone lines in Washington!

Comment by PickensPlan on November 16, 2009 at 2:41pm: Hey everyone. Wanted to let you know we started a new discussion on Natural Gas here. Come share your thoughts!