<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for SOS trumps NSA (Hillary Clinton trumps Gen. Jones)]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Jon Rynn http://www.grist.org/article/stuff-i-learned-at-doe-part-1/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/stuff-i-learned-at-doe-part-1/1 Joe, one question about DOD

Don't they like to push around other agencies, particularly State?  Their budget is huge compared to any other department.  It seems as if Jones is being groomed to be Secretary of Defense.  Maybe Defense will insist that shale oil is necessary to insure fuel for the jets, blah blah blah.  I'm not saying Jones is in a powerful position now, I'm asking about the role of DOD in energy and climate issues, and a possible Secretary of Defense Jones,

]]> Joe, one question about DOD

Don't they like to push around other agencies, particularly State?  Their budget is huge compared to any other department.  It seems as if Jones is being groomed to be Secretary of Defense.  Maybe Defense will insist that shale oil is necessary to insure fuel for the jets, blah blah blah.  I'm not saying Jones is in a powerful position now, I'm asking about the role of DOD in energy and climate issues, and a possible Secretary of Defense Jones,

]]> Comment #2 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/stuff-i-learned-at-doe-part-1/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:52:48 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/stuff-i-learned-at-doe-part-1/2 "Chevron" (board room mate) Jones

That's very scarey.  An Obama administration invaded by big oil board room mates?  The same guys who brought US gas guzzling, oil warring, and now depression.  While their oil corporation valuations (and golden parachutes) soar.

I hope you are right Joe.  National security lies in the hope that this administration will put a plan forward to incrementally reduce oil demand year after year, until almost none is needed in 10 to 20 years.

Will the NSC get this, with "Chevron" Jones in charge?  Nope, it will be oil supply (oil war) security 24/7.

You are probably right though, commerce has the main input into domestic policy, a necessary oil demand reduction strategy.

Maybe Hillary can negotiate a global cooperative demand reduction strategy of oil consuming nations like this?

Now that would be energy security, ushering in global peace and prosperity.  Oil kleptocracies would have to yield to negotiation.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> "Chevron" (board room mate) Jones

That's very scarey.  An Obama administration invaded by big oil board room mates?  The same guys who brought US gas guzzling, oil warring, and now depression.  While their oil corporation valuations (and golden parachutes) soar.

I hope you are right Joe.  National security lies in the hope that this administration will put a plan forward to incrementally reduce oil demand year after year, until almost none is needed in 10 to 20 years.

Will the NSC get this, with "Chevron" Jones in charge?  Nope, it will be oil supply (oil war) security 24/7.

You are probably right though, commerce has the main input into domestic policy, a necessary oil demand reduction strategy.

Maybe Hillary can negotiate a global cooperative demand reduction strategy of oil consuming nations like this?

Now that would be energy security, ushering in global peace and prosperity.  Oil kleptocracies would have to yield to negotiation.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Comment #3 by rumpole http://www.grist.org/article/stuff-i-learned-at-doe-part-1/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:12:19 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/stuff-i-learned-at-doe-part-1/3 If I were Obama, I would pick...

Hi Joe,

If I were Obama, I would pick James Woolsey, former CIA director under Clinton, to be the new Secretary of Energy (SOE).  OK, so he advised McCain on energy issues, but, that aside, he would be great at presenting oil addiction to the public as a national security issue, which it is.  He's is very much in favor of plug-in hybrids, cellulosic ethanol, and all sorts of very useful changes that need to be made in domestic petroleum/energy consumption.  I think he could really increase public support for what will be unfamiliar policies, like putting a floor on the price of oil, for example.

From your piece: "replaced in an Obama administration by some sort of national energy council -- and yes, they had better come up with a name that doesn't have the same acronym as the original NEC."

I would call it the Energy Security Council, akin to the NSC, and I would put a wide range of folks on it.  Amory Lovins, Jeff Immelt (CEO of GE), SOE, the FERC Chairman, Tom Friedman, if he would do it, Andy Karsner (outgoing Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), and yourself, for starters.  I would have a biweekly ESC meeting, which would talk about several of the universe of topics relating to energy, security, and economy, which are all interconnected.  The meetings would be a bit of a tough slog at the beginning, but after about a year, when our energy transformation is moving in the right direction, they would get easier.  

rumpole

]]> If I were Obama, I would pick...

Hi Joe,

If I were Obama, I would pick James Woolsey, former CIA director under Clinton, to be the new Secretary of Energy (SOE).  OK, so he advised McCain on energy issues, but, that aside, he would be great at presenting oil addiction to the public as a national security issue, which it is.  He's is very much in favor of plug-in hybrids, cellulosic ethanol, and all sorts of very useful changes that need to be made in domestic petroleum/energy consumption.  I think he could really increase public support for what will be unfamiliar policies, like putting a floor on the price of oil, for example.

From your piece: "replaced in an Obama administration by some sort of national energy council -- and yes, they had better come up with a name that doesn't have the same acronym as the original NEC."

I would call it the Energy Security Council, akin to the NSC, and I would put a wide range of folks on it.  Amory Lovins, Jeff Immelt (CEO of GE), SOE, the FERC Chairman, Tom Friedman, if he would do it, Andy Karsner (outgoing Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), and yourself, for starters.  I would have a biweekly ESC meeting, which would talk about several of the universe of topics relating to energy, security, and economy, which are all interconnected.  The meetings would be a bit of a tough slog at the beginning, but after about a year, when our energy transformation is moving in the right direction, they would get easier.  

rumpole

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