Principles

What We Believe

• America can, must and will lead the world through an energy-environment-economic revolution, equalling or surpassing the productivity gains of the industrial revolution, where world GDP as a factor of carbon emissions (dollar unit per carbon unit emitted) increases more than tenfold by 2050.
• America must achieve energy independence in the plainest of contexts – not being under the control of others – and lead the world earnestly away from oil politics and economics with an equal eye to security and prosperity.
• Targets for carbon emission reductions at home must be obtained in parallel to equally ambitious measures in China and India to achieve real progress halting and reversing humankind’s overall carbon footprint.
• Accurate information, professional competency, organizational change and deliberate scale form the cornerstones of America’s, and the world’s, energy-carbon problems and solutions.
• Incentives, mandates, investments and innovations must focus urgently upon efficiency gains for energy production and consumption, with an emphasis toward unlocking household and corporate balance sheets with distributed, renewable generation.
• The American people must demand urgent, dates-certain action from government and industry to deliver abundant, cheap, clean and reliable energy.
• The US transportation sector must be electrified alongside a higher-capacity, smart electricity grid, along with smart meters and nationwide net-metering policies, replacing our antiquated, unsecure and fragile just-in-time system by 2020.
• The US and global marketplaces require the price clarity of a carbon fee to enable long-term investment and cost-planning, while making renewable sources and clean energy technology competitive and profitable.