David B. Sandalow (born 1957) is the Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. He has served in senior positions at the White House, State Department and U.S. Department of Energy. At Columbia, Sandalow also serves as Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs.
From Spring 2009 to Spring 2013, Sandalow served in positions at the
United States Department of Energy
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, including Under Secretary of Energy (acting) 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
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. He also chaired the Energy & Climate Change Working Group at the
Clinton Global Initiative
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.
He was Executive Vice President at the
World Wildlife Fund
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from 2001 to 2003.
He has also served as
,
U.S. State Department.
Brookings Biopicture
Sandalow serves on the Board of ReNew Power, India's largest renewable power developer, and as an advisor to a number of other companies.
He earned a B.A. from Yale
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...
and J.D. from University of Michigan Law School
The University of Michigan Law School (Michigan Law) is the law school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1859, the school offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparative Law (MCL ...
.
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 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 engin ...
s (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 credit
A tax credit is a tax incentive which allows certain taxpayers to subtract the amount of the credit they have accrued from the total they owe the state. It may also be a credit granted in recognition of taxes already paid or a form of state "dis ...
s 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
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book ''Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington?''
See also
* Jon Wellinghoff
Jon B. Wellinghoff (born May 30, 1949) is an American attorney who served as the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from 2009 to 2013. The FERC is a U.S. government agency that regulates the interstate transmission of el ...
References
External links
OnPoint, 16 October 2007: Brookings Institution's David Sandalow lays out plan to end United States' oil addiction
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1957 births
Living people
Hybrid electric vehicle advocates
Obama administration personnel
United States Department of Energy officials
United States Department of State officials
University of Michigan Law School alumni
Yale College alumni