Senate Committee Hears Testimony on Approaches to

The US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a hearing on US Energy Independence today, with testimony from four witnesses: Amory Lovins, CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute; R. James Woolsey; Susan Cischke, Ford vice president of environmental and safety engineering; and Frank Verrastro, Director and Senior Fellow of the Energy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Lovins was the most direct (and with the shortest testimony), calling for a policy focus that would accelerate the elimination of reliance on oil from any source, not just non-US sources. Lovins asserted that energy independence and its purpose, energy security, rest on three pillars:

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