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''Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security'' is a 2005 book by Amory B. Lovins,
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, Odd-Even Bustnes, Jonathan G. Koomey, and Nathan J. Glasgow, published by the Rocky Mountain Institute. It presents an independent, transdisciplinary analysis of four ways to reduce petroleum dependence in the United States: *Using oil more efficiently, through smarter technologies that wring more (and often better) services from less oil (pp. 29–102). *Substituting for petroleum fuels other liquids made from biomass or wastes (pp. 103–111). *Substituting saved natural gas for oil in uses where they’re interchangeable, such as furnaces and boilers (pp. 111–122). *Replacing oil with hydrogen made from non-oil resources (pp. 228–242).


Problems and solutions

The authors explain that the problems of oil dependence are manageable, suggesting that oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have. The proposed solutions to oil dependence are profitable and U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security. The authors argue that America can lead the world into the post-petroleum era and create a vibrant economy. (p.xiii)


Reviews

''Winning the Oil Endgame'' has received many positive reviews and the Wall Street Journal called the book "Perhaps the most rigorous and surely the most dramatic analysis of what it will take to wean us from foreign oil ... carried out by the Rocky Mountain Institute, a respected center of hard-headed, market-based research."


The Author

Amory Lovins has published 28 books and hundreds of papers. His work has been recognized by the
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, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo and Mitchell prizes, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Happold Medal, eight honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, World Technology, and Hero of the Planet Awards. Lovins has also acted as a consultant to many
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See also

* Brittle Power *
Efficient energy use Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the process of reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services. For example, insulating a building allows it to use less heating and cooling energy to ...
*
Energy conservation Energy conservation is the effort to reduce wasteful energy consumption by using fewer energy services. This can be done by using energy more effectively (using less energy for continuous service) or changing one's behavior to use less service (f ...
*
Hypercar Hypercar may refer to: * Hypercar (concept car) * Hypercar (car classification), a high-performance supercar * Le Mans Hypercar See also * Hyper (disambiguation) * Car (disambiguation) * Supercar (disambiguation) Supercar or ''variant'' may ...
* Peak oil *
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid electric vehicle whose battery pack can be recharged by plugging a charging cable into an external electric power source, in addition to internally by its on-board internal combustion engine ...
* Renewable energy commercialization *
Soft energy technology Soft energy technologies may be seen as ''appropriate'' renewable technologies.The soft energy pa ...
* Soft energy path * The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era


References


External links


Winning the Oil Endgame presentation at MIT
- Video of Lovins.
Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame (TED presentation)

Winning the Oil Endgame
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