Full Title: Strategic Energy Policy Challenges for the 21st Century, Report of an Independent Task Force
Author(s): E. Morse (Chair), A. Jaffe (Project Director)
Publisher(s): James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University
Publication Date: April 1, 2001
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Description (excerpt):
This Independent Task Force Report outlines some of the hard choices that should be considered and recommends specific policy approaches to secure the energy future of the United States. These choices will affect other U.S. policy objectives: U.S. policy toward the Middle East, U.S. policy toward Russia and the former Soviet Union states and China; the fight against international terrorism, and environmental and international trade policy, including our position on the European Union (EU) energy charter, economic sanctions, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and foreign trade credits and aid. The Bush administration is in a unique position to articulate these tradeoffs in a nonpartisan manner and to rally the support of the American public. U.S. strategic energy policy must prioritize and coordinate
domestic and foreign policy choices and objectives, where possible. Moreover, the energy problem is inexorably intertwined with the fundamental challenge of creating sustainable economic growth without sacrificing environmental protection. The pursuit of a solution demands a major national effort.