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
26%
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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Based on figures from U.S. Energy Information Administration, BP Statistical Review, World Data Population, and the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas. *It should be noted that although Canada has an annual per capita barrel consumption close to the United States, it remains a net exporter of oil.
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
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