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Refueling America - Sept. 21, 2005 The NC Solar Center, Triangle
Clean Cities
Coalition, Wake
Technical Community College and over twenty other organizations
sponsored the Refueling America workshop to focus attention on
alternatives to petroleum that are available now. The luncheon featured
keynote speaker, Paul Roberts whose book, The End of Oil was acclaimed
by the NY Times as “perhaps the best single book ever produced about
our energy economy and its environmental implications.” Over 300
luncheon attendees heard Roberts discuss the economic vulnerability
that comes with reliance on an increasingly scarce natural resource.
Roberts points out that although we are on dangerous ground with our
increasing oil dependence, we can take steps to avoid disaster. The Refueling America workshop focused on three such steps - biofuels, hybrid electric vehicles and idle reduction technologies and practices. All can help stretch our fuel supply, encourage economic development and improve mobile emissions- a significant source of North Carolina’s air quality problems. General
Information Workshop Presentations Why Are We Here Today (Overview of Technologies); Al Ebron, National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium Biodiesel; Dr Richard Nelson, Kansas State University/National Biodiesel Board E85; Earle Spruill, Osage, Inc/ National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition The Growing Role of Hybrids in Public and Private Fleets; Naomi Friedman, Center for a New American Dream Truck Stop Electrification and Trucks; Skip Yeakel, Volvo Trucks North America Idling Reduction Makes Sense; Terry M Levinson, Argonne National Lab School Bus Idling Example; Tobin Fried, Triangle Clean Cities NC Air Quality Concerns: Role of Transportation in Air Quality; Donnie Redmond, NC Division of Air Quality Air Pollution and Health; Clay Ballantine,M.D. |
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