Leading by Example : How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution

by Richardson, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780470186374
• ISBN10: 0470186372
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-26
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Where America needs to go in 2008-from the presidential candidate who can take the country there Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico has served as Secretary of Energy and Ambassador to the United Nations. Now, as the only candidate with executive and foreign policy experience, he presents an integrated, comprehensive program to radically and quickly reduce Americaa??s oil dependence, create long-term energy security for the United States, and protect the worlda??s climate.Richardson decided to write Leading by Example because other elected officials, diplomats, pundits, and industry leaders are proposing stopgap measures. Congress and the White House are taking baby steps for a nation that needs-and wants-giant progress on energy and climate. In Leading by Example, Richardson argues that the United States must act boldly and it must act now-and then he provides the detailed program needed to achieve energy security and climate protection, as well as to restore Americaa??s international leadership. Richardson issues a call to action for Congress, the energy industry, and the public. He calls for a new American revolution-an energy and climate revolution. Likening the nationa??s energy challenge to those that unified Americans to win World War II and to put a man on the moon, Richardson says that the energy policy stagnation of the past 20 years is a challenge whose solutions will inspire optimism, new technologies, and a measure of sacrifice among the American people."In their dreams, political reporters can imagine what a race between [Bill Richardson and Mike Huckabee] would be like: two lively, loquacious politicians with strongly opposed viewpoints but a liking for people-and a promise of a few lighter moments to relieve the tedium and the tensions of a long campaign."-David Broder, The Washington PostGovernor Bill Richardson (Santa Fe, NM) was elected Governor of New Mexico in 2002. He has served as New Mexicoa??s Representative in the Third Congressional District, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Secretary of Energy. He is the author of Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life (978-0-399-15324-2). 9780470182406One of the countrya??s most well-known progressive commentators on how-and why-the conservative movement went off the railsAccording to even Newt Gingrich, "Republicans have lost their way." Always better with one-liners than worthwhile policies, John McCain recently said, "We spent money like a drunken sailor. Although I never really knew a sailor, drunk or sober, with the imagination of my colleagues."Bill Press, however, says the Republicans have been governing exactly the way youa??d expect. If a politiciana??s most basic belief is that government always fails, why would anyone think hea??d try to prove otherwise? Trainwreck details the rise of the modern conservative movement from Robert Taft to Ronald Reagan and its fall from Newt Gingrich to the abject failure of George W. Bush.Once champions of fiscal responsibility, conservatives have brought us, instead, record high federal spending and bloated budget deficits. Once leery of foreign entanglements, conservatives have launched us, instead, into an unprecedented age of imperial wars and conquests. Once apostles of honesty and integrity in government, conservatives have, instead, used their positions of power to enrich themselves or evade the rule of law.For decades, conservatives struggled to topple liberals from the federal throne, but, once in power, they didna??t deliver. Everything they touched, they trashed. Here is the story of who, how, and why.Bill Press (Washington, DC) is the host of Sirius Radioa??s Bill Press Show, which is also syndicated across the

Author Biography

Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM) has served as Secretary of Energy and Ambassador to the United Nations. Now, as the only candidate with executive and foreign policy experience, he presents an action program to sharply reduce America's oil dependence, build foreign policy on our principles instead of our addictions, and lead the world with energy and climate solutions that might just save millions of American jobs—and the planet.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
No Challenge Is Greater or More Important	p. 7
1997-2007: Then and Now	p. 17
Oil, Coal, and the Planet's Future	p. 43
A Confused World, an Opportunity to Lead	p. 67
Learning from Others	p. 91
The Costs of Action, the Price of Inaction	p. 117
Government Must Play a Role	p. 141
Using the Bully Pulpit: The Power of the Energy President	p. 163
Facing Reality	p. 191
2020 Vision: An Energy Revolution, in Five Simple Steps	p. 207
Acknowledgments	p. 235
Further Reading	p. 237
Index	p. 240
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