U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus (1/6/14)

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🗓️ 9 January 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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"A clean-energy economy, I think, is the future,” according to 75th U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who leads America’s Navy and Marine Corps. One of the world’s largest fuel consumers, the Navy has committed to obtaining 50 percent of its total energy consumption from alternative sources by 2020. Mabus said he's “absolutely convinced” that goal will be met. “Now is exactly the time that we have to do this,” Mabus said. “A tightening budget situation makes it even more urgent, even more critical.” He discussed concerns about sea level rise in the Pacific, melting ice in the Arctic and the Navy’s power to help move the market into a lower carbon future. "We don't pick and choose what we protect right now – we protect the world," Mabus said. This conversation covers the Navy’s outlook on the road toward a cleaner energy economy, as well as its political challenges. “I have been sort of honored by the push back," Mabus said about the Navy’s move to use biofuels. "What it says to me is that what we're doing is working." U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on January 6, 2014 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.4	I'm Greg Dalton, and today we're talking with U.S. Secretary of the Navy,
1:09.5	Ray Mabas about powering
1:10.8	America's economy and military. The oil boom in North Dakota and Texas is projected to make the
1:16.2	United States the world's largest petroleum producer next year. The notion that we would extract
1:22.0	more oil than Saudi Arabia would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. While the country
1:27.3	is awash and newly available oil, burning that oil is disrupting the
1:31.3	Earth's climate and driving weird weather.
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