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Americans are fighting a war and funding our enemies as well as ourselves. A percentage of the money motorists spend to fill their automobiles with gasoline goes to regimes and individuals funding Islamist terrorism.

The way out of this dilemma is to break the oil monopoly—to encourage a competitive market in transportation fuels, to give consumers a choice at the pump.

The FDD Energy Security Project educates policymakers and the American public about the national security and environmental benefits from terror-free alternatives to oil and other transportation innovations.

America must lead the world in implementing new technologies that lead to independence by utilizing our domestic resources, alternative fuels, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

Specifically, Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFV) are ordinary cars modified (at the cost of about $100 a car) to burn a variety of non-petroleum fuels made from agricultural products, urban garbage, coal and many other substances. But there is a chicken-and-the-egg problem: Why buy a car that can utilize alternative fuels when those fuels are not readily available? Why make such fuels readily available when there are few cars that can utilize it? Legislation pending in both the House and Senate, the Open Fuel Standard Act, would protect consumers from future energy crises by ensuring that cars can run on alternative forms of energy, including both ethanol and methanol, made from a variety of sources.

FDD has been active on energy policy issues through the FDD-managed Committee on the Present Danger (www.committeeonthepresentdanger.org) whose co-chairman and FDD Distinguished Advisor, Ambassador Jim Woolsey, plays a leading role in the public policy debate on energy security.

FDD is also a member of the Set America Free Coalition (www.setamericafree.org), a broad coalition of groups across the political spectrum, which Ambassador Woolsey has called "a coalition of tree huggers, do-gooders, sodbusters, cheap hawks, and evangelicals."

FDD's Energy Security Project includes FDD Fellow and energy policy expert Dr. Robert Zubrin, the author of the book “Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil.”


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"If we weren't dependent on Saudi oil, we could be more insistent that the Saudis stop funding the hideous Wahhabi teaching of hatred of Shiites, Sufis, Jews, Christians, women, and democracy. They fund it massively -- between $80 billion and $90 billion have been spent in spreading this filth around the world -- and almost all of that is oil money."

FDD Distinguished Advisor and Fmr. CIA Director, R. James Woolsey

 

 

 

“I think we’re beginning to see the substance of an alternative [to oil dependence] come into form here, which if we all leave here and do something about it, can really have been enormously historic.”

Robert “Bud” McFarlane, FDD Distinguished Advisor and Fmr. National Security Advisor, on the 2008 FDD Leading Thinkers Conference on Energy Security

 

From Energy Crisis to Energy Security

 
 
Media

In the Media
Print & Online
It's Time to Open the Fuel Market to Methanol, Roll Call (11/18/2009)
The Costs of the Cap-and-Trade Bill, Roll Call (07/01/2009)
The Irrationality of Indirect Analysis, Roll Call (06/03/2009)
Oil and Warfare Mix, Scripps Howard News Service, Spanish translation here. (05/21/2009)
Growing Cap and Trade on the Tax Farm, Pajamas Media (04/01/2009)

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Broadcast
The Right Balance, Syndicated (03/06/2009)
The Net-Zero Gas Tax: A Way to Protect America's Economic, Environmental and National Security?, FORA TV (03/05/2009)
PJTV Daily, Pajamas TV (12/16/2008)
Faith Middleton Show, WNPR New Haven - CT (10/30/2008)
PJTV Daily, Pajamas TV (10/24/2008)

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Mentions
Cap and Trade is More Horse Trading, mentioned, Charleston Daily Mail (07/03/2009)
The Irrationality of Indirect Analysis, quoted by Joanna Schroeder, DomesticFuel.com (06/08/2009)
Ethanol vs. Electricity, quoted by Alan Boyle, MSNBC (05/07/2009)
Zubrin Says Mandatory Flex-Fuel Autos Can Lead to Energy Indepedence, Jean Caspers-Simmet, Agri News (02/03/2009)
Connecting the Oily Dots of the Economic Meltdown, Editor, EV World: The Future in Motion (10/26/2008)

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International Media
News Update, BBC TV Arabic (12/23/2008)
The World Tonight, 770 CHQR- Calgary (07/28/2008)
The World Tonight, 770 CHQR- Calgary (07/08/2008)

Press Releases
Open Fuel Standard Act Introduced in Senate and House (04/22/2009)
Bestselling Author Pulls No Punches in New Plan to Solve America's Energy Crisis (09/23/2008)
Research

Briefings and Testimonies
Can We Drill Our Way to Energy Security? (03/05/2009)
Endangered Electricity System (01/27/2009)
The Ripple Effect of High Oil Prices (10/02/2008)
Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles: A “Game-Changing Technology” (09/22/2008)
The Strategic Vulnerabilities of Oil Dependence (07/21/2008)

See more Briefings and Testimonies from Energy Security Project


Events

The Net-Zero Gas Tax: A Way to Protect America’s Economic, Environmental and National Security?
March 5, 2009
FDD Senior Fellow Robert Zubrin to Keynote 3rd Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit
January 27, 2009
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Clifford D. May, a former New York Times foreign correspondent, is president of FDD. May served as an expert advisor to the Baker-Hamilton Commission, was appointed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's committee on democracy, and has been called one of America's "100 most influential conservatives"by Britain's Telegraph newspaper...more

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