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Name
  
David Sandalow


Appointed by
  
Barack Obama



Books
  
Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction

Education
  
University of Michigan Law School, Yale College, University of Michigan

Similar
  
Barack Obama, Daniel Poneman, Carlos Pascual, Kristina M Johnson, Steve Isakowitz

David b sandalow


David B. Sandalow has served in senior positions at the White House, State Department and U.S. Department of Energy. He is currently the Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy and co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

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From Spring 2009 to Spring 2013, Sandalow served in positions at the United States Department of Energy, including Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs

Prior to his appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy, he was a Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, and Energy and Environment Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He also chaired the Energy & Climate Change Working Group at the Clinton Global Initiative.

He was Executive Vice President at the World Wildlife Fund from 2001 to 2003.

He has also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. State Department. (Brookings Bio picture

Early in his career, he was an attorney with the Office of General Counsel at the, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

He earned his B.A. from Yale in 1978, and his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 1982.

Freedom From Oil

He wrote Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction .

The plot centers around a fictional Presidential Plan to End Oil Dependence, detailed below:

  • Offering to buy 30,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) at an $8,000 premium.
  • Committing after their delivery that half the vehicles purchased by the federal government will be PHEVs. That's a much stronger version of Pres. George W. Bush's order.
  • Legislation to retool US auto factories and assume some auto industry health costs.
  • Consumer tax credits of $8,000 for the first million PHEVs and $4,000 for the second million.
  • Replacing Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards with Fuel Reduction and Energy Efficiency (FREEdom) standards
  • A Federal Battery Guarantee Corporation to help manufacturers provide 10-year battery warranties for the first million cars.
  • He also authored the 2009 Brookings Institution book Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington?

    References

    David B. Sandalow Wikipedia