Comments on: MEDIA ADVISORY: Renewable Energy Knowledge and Skills Demonstrated by Students at EnergyWhiz Olympics on Saturday, May 1 https://blog.energyresearch.ucf.edu/2010/04/energywhiz-olympics/ Energy News from FSEC®, Florida's Premier Energy Research Center, at the University of Central Florida Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Amanda https://blog.energyresearch.ucf.edu/2010/04/energywhiz-olympics/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:00:30 +0000 https://blog.energyresearch.ucf.edu/?p=724#comment-153 Energy Independence begins with Energy efficiency – It’s cheaper to save energy than to make energy (“Out of Oil, Here Comes the Sun”)
Why high oil prices haven’t cut demand.
As oil at $85 and over going to ?.
Bigger economic incentives needed to conserve energy
Driving habits little changed by gas prices
American motorists continue to fork over more money at the pump and are not changing their driving behavior despite rising fuel prices.
Despite higher fuel prices, demand hasn’t fallen as it did after the 1970s oil shocks. Energy researchers say it will take greater economic incentives to boost energy efficiency and cut consumption. Accelerate the implementation of renewable energy generation, Solar, Wind, etc..

P.S. I have a very deep belief in America’s capabilities. Within the next 10 years we can accomplish our energy independence, if we as a nation truly set our goals to accomplish this.

I happen to believe that we can do it. In another crisis–the one in 1942–President Franklin D. Roosevelt said this country would build 60,000 [50,000] military aircraft. By 1943, production in that program had reached 125,000 aircraft annually. They did it then. We can do it now.

“The way we produce and use energy must fundamentally change.”
The American people resilience and determination to retain the way of life is unconquerable and we as a nation will succeed in this endeavor of Energy Independence.

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