Law in Contemporary Society

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Oil Dependence: Why it must end, and why the Federal Government Must end it

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America's Oil Addiction: A Basic Diagnosis

 -- ShayBanerjee - 24 May 2015

Introduction

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<		Oil accounts for 95 percent of energy used in the U.S. transportation sector. That is a problem. There are multiple ways to solve it but all will require a coordinated national effort financed by the federal government. Congress should choose the solution it prefers, or get used to managing a broken economy.
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The Long Term Problem: Oil prices are killing us

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A National Solution

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>		America will replace its fleet of 250 million oil-powered vehicles or suffer an economic disaster on the order of tens of trillions of dollars. The time to make choices is now.
 Plug-in electric vehicles are one potential solution since they rely on grid-based power generation, where oil accounts for only 1% of energy use. Yet despite their commercial viability, higher energy efficiency, and competitive price, plug-in electric vehicle penetration remains at under 0.5% after decades of oil price increases. The truth is that America’s infrastructure imposes insurmountable hurdles to the construction of a national electric charging network. Charging 100 electric cars in a single area at peak hours – as the average gas station does – would require around 10-15 MW[1] to cross into residential and commercial areas. That sort of power would strain residential and commercial distribution lines to their breaking point. That is a problem the private sector will not fix because it lacks the financial incentive and legal authority to do so. State governments do not have the capital to solve it and, unlike the federal government, they cannot finance it through deficit spending. If plug-in electric cars are to take hold, Congress must either replace distribution lines with higher-voltage transmission lines or build centralized electric refueling facilities in proximity to power plants.

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