Drill, Baby, Spill

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🗓️ 21 May 2010

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Drill, Baby, Spill Jim Boyd, Vice Chair, California Energy Commission Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club Dan Miller, Managing Director, The Roda Group Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President, Western States Petroleum Association What impact will the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have on America’s energy supply? With the environmental and economic damage mounting daily, California has backed away from plans to drill off the West Coast. Will the United States also change course and shelve recently announced plans to erect a new generation of offshore oil rigs? As Alaskan supplies fall, will California import more oil from the Middle East? Or turn to Canadian tar sands? Will the oil spill drive investment and policies to spur biofuels? Oil on the shores of Louisiana will change the energy equation in ways we are just starting to understand. Join us for a town hall conversation about how to safely and cleanly fuel our future. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on May 18, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.7	This spring, President Obama opened up new tracks of deep ocean waters
1:06.5	to oil exploration and development.
1:08.8	Just a few weeks later, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig plunged
1:12.1	into the Gulf of Mexico on April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. On the same day, the U.S.
1:19.4	Navy was testing a Green Hornet F.A. 18 jet fighter powered by fuel made from Camelina, a hearty U.S.
1:26.4	grown plant that can thrive even in difficult soil.
1:29.9	Navy Secretary Ray Mabas, former governor of Mississippi and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia,
1:35.9	called the test a milestone in the development of biofuels. You know how times have changed
1:40.9	when the Marines are celebrating a day founded by hippies. What will be the
1:45.7	economic and environmental impact of oil gushing from the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico?
1:51.1	Every president since Nixon has said America needs to reduce its dependence on petroleum,
1:55.5	and we know that has not happened. Will the country finally get serious about conserving energy
2:00.3	and investing in
2:01.1	renewable transportation fuels? Here to discuss those issues and take questions from our live
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