How Will America Survive Without Foreign Oil?

1. How Will America Survive Without Foreign Oil? Ideas for Today and Tomorrow

2. America is the World’s Largest Consumer of Energy • America has approximately 5% of the world’s population • We consume approximately 30% of the world’s energy • Americans consume more than twice the energy of citizens of industrialized nations

3. More than 50% of the oil consumed in America is foreign • Key suppliers include: • Mexico • Canada • Venezuela • Saudi Arabia • This dependency costs money

5. What Would We Do If This Foreign Oil Was Disrupted? IS THERE A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE?

6. EFFICICIENCY IS THE ANSWER

7. 3 Main Sectors of consumption

8. TRANSPORTATION

9. Most Petroleum is Used for Transportation

11. Today’s 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 America’s greenhouse gases a year

12. 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

13. Short-term Goals and Caveat • Increase the use of additives • Increase minimum MPG on automobiles • Do both of the above without affecting vehicle prices

14. Long-Term Strategy • 55 MPG vehicles within 20 years • 50% ethanol fuel within 20 years • Caveat – Keep cars safe and powerful

15. How Did We Get Here? • Waste • No carpooling • Bigger cars • Thriving Economy • Cheap gas • More powerful cars

16. Americans Love Our Cars • It’s a big country • We’re used to the convenience • The use of private vehicles for transportation is going to stay

17. We are on the move • Americans traveled nearly 5 trillion miles in 1999

18. Vehicle use is on the rise

19. WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?

20. 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

21. Better mileage Fuel technology alone can increase economy to 40 miles per gallon

22. The Solution is Simple: Corn

23. Current ethanol production

24. Corn used for ethanol production

25. Ethanol is more efficient • 100 BTUs of energy to produce 135 BTUs of ethanol • 100 BTUs of energy to produce 85 BTUs of gasoline

26. 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

27. Why is it good? • It’s made in America • It’s renewable • It costs about the same as gasoline • It burns cleaner • It prevents freezing gas lines • We can grow as much as we need

28. 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

29. We already have the technology

30. The other main use of oil is for production of other forms of energy • Heat • Electricity • Steam

31. More efficient homes = less oil needed to create this energy • Better construction • Solar power • Geothermal heating and cooling • Wind production • Lighting

32. 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

33. Where is it lost?

35. Simple solutions can equal big energy savings • Weather stripping • Double pane windows • Foam core doors • Attic fans • Higher quality insulation • Southern windows

36. Solar power for heat and electricity

37. Two types of solar • Electricity production • Heat production

38. 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

39. The Sun can heat...and cool: • Solar energy is easily converted to heat • It can also be used in a system that cools

40. 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

41. Don’t forget the swimming pool

42. Wind in your home

43. Let the Earth heat and power your home

44. Other ways to “plug the leaks”

45. Combined Heat and Power

46. These systems are readily available • “Normal” energy production is 20%-30% efficient. • CHPS are approximately 80% efficient.

48. What does it mean?

49. Current Legislation There is a surprising amount of efficiency legislation either on the books or pending in Congress

50. 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