Achieving American Energy Independence,

One Organization at a Time

Employee Energy Efficiency Incentive Program

• High Efficiency Vehicle Employee Cash Incentive – Cash incentives, sliding

scale based on the efficiency of the car

– Parking incentives for hybrid cars also based on sliding scale

• Other Options– Carpooling benefits

– Arranging employee van pools

– Metro pass incentive

Two-thirds of all oil consumed in the United States goes toward fueling our cars and trucks.1

Two-thirds of all oil consumed in the United States goes toward

transportation.

(1) United States Department of Energy, http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/rtecs/contents.html.

Why Transportation?

• The EPA 2006 green house gas emissions index found 33% of all CO2 emissions come from the transportation sector.

• Cars and light-trucks represent 63% of oil demand

• The price of gasoline – it affects all of us because our supply is vulnerable

Why You? Be a Leader - Go ‘Green’

• Advantage to employer:– Positive PR– Attract socially conscious

employees– Effective employee recruiting

& retention tool– Boost Employee morale– Big impact for the $ spent– Support national security– Promote conservation

• Other Companies’ Employee program– Bank of America; Google; Timberland

Why Hybrids? Efficiency

(1) http://www.hybridcars.com.(2) Data: www.fueleconomy.com.(3) Data: www.fueleconomy.com and U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. Savings calculated using $3.08

per gallon, Los Angeles price as of September 1, 2006.

Cars vs. SUVs – The Statistics You Need to Know1

2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee 2006 Honda Accord Hybrid

Miles per Gallon………………….16

Annual Fuel Cost……………..$2,540

Annual Gallons Used……………936

Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions…………………..10.8 tons

CO2 Emissions…........11,100 lbs/year

Miles per Gallon………………...31

Annual Fuel Cost…………..…$1,114

Annual Gallons Used………..…..462

Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions…………….……...5.9 tons

CO2 Emissions…........4,800 lbs/year

If all those who purchased SUVs in 2005 had instead bought Honda Accords (or an equivalent car in its class), Americans could have saved

3,730,962,000 gallons of gas – $11,491,362,960 – in one year!3

Why Efficiency? Security

• National Security– stop funding ‘both side of the war on terror’

• Economic Security– Protect our economy from fluctuations in the

oil market

• Environmental Security – Protect our environment for our children

Barrels and Bombs – National Security

1. Data for 2006 based on findings by the Energy Information Administration, U.S. Government, at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/ international/oilreserves.html.

2. Data based on 2006 forecasted revenues called by the Energy Information Administration, U.S. Government at http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/OPEC_Revenues/OPEC.html

US IMPORTS OF OIL FIVE TOP COUNTRIES

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21%15%

18%

20% Canada

Mexico

Nigeria

Saudi Arabia

Venezuela

Over half of our oil imports come from rogue nations and nations that support terrorism, such as Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and

Nigeria. This threatens our national security

“We are funding both sides of the war on terrorism”- New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman

Barrels and Bombs – National Security

(1) Al-Musawwar, January 19, 1990, cited in Mitchell Bard, “Middle East Policy and Oil,” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usoil.html.

(2) “Bin Laden War on West Just Starting: Deputy,” The Age (Melbourne, Australia), December 8, 2005, at http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/ bin-laden-war-on-west-just-starting-deputy/2005/12/07/1133829660913.html.

(3) “Iran Threatens to Squeeze Oil Flow,” CBS News, June 4, 2006, at www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/04/world/main1680072.shtml.

Oil has been used as a weapon against the United States.

“If [the U.S.] makes a wrong move regarding Iran, definitely the energy flow in this region will be

seriously endangered.”3

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader

“If Mr. Bush is possessed with the madness of trying to blockade Venezuela, or worse for them, to invade Venezuela ... sadly not a drop of petroleum will come to them from Venezuela.”1 President Hugo Chavez

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Overall U.S. reliance on foreign oil has increased dramatically.

A minor disruption in any of these rogue nations could cause economic havoc and a potential crisis in the United States.

National Security - In the Hands of Dictators

U.S. Department of Energy Annual Energy Outlook 2007 w projection

Economic Security - US Oil Dependency

James Woolsey, former CIA director: “[An] attack on the petroleum infrastructure in the Middle East could send oil to well over $100 per barrel … [That] should be sufficient to convince any objective observer that oil dependence today creates serious and pressing dangers for the United States and other oil-importing nations.”1

1) http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/oct05/features/petrbomb/petrbomb.html2) DOE Annual Energy Outlook 2007 w projections.pdf

Economic Security – Price Fluctuations

U.S. oil dependence makes us more susceptible to price fluctuations. This puts us at a competitive disadvantage compared

to other countries around world.

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Environmental Security

- Global Warming- 33% of CO2 emissions from the transportation sector

- Air Quality & Public Health-100,000 people die every year from preventable air pollution nationally

-6.5 million go to the hospital with respiratory and other diseases related to smog and polluted air.

About AJC

AJC has been actively advocating for energy security and independence for thirty years:

“[AJC] believes that the development of a comprehensive U.S. energy program is essential to the economic and social well-being of our country, to our national security, and to the continuance of our broad role in the world affairs … the American public seems to have forgotten the 1973 crisis and the quadrupling of oil prices that followed. Indeed, our dependence on foreign oil, particularly Arab oil, has increased over the past three years. In 1973 we imported only 28 percent of the oil we consumed; today [in 1976] we import close to 43 percent, and the trend is upward.”

American Jewish Committee, December 1976