Many Americans think of the shale revolution as all about oil. Those thousands of wells bring up plenty of oil, after all. But they also bring up a treasure trove of natural gas, Fuel Freedom Foundation co-founder and chairman Yossie Hollander told Atlanta radio station WCFO recently.
This report includes in-depth presentations Fuel Freedom delivered last year, addressing two key areas of U.S. energy policy: The importance of oil alternatives for the nation’s economic security; and the potential for natural gas to revolutionize the U.S. transportation market.
The global oil trade is a “contrived market” not subject to the usual laws of supply and demand, and the United States has an “absolute requirement” to use alternatives if it hopes to wean itself off imported oil, former Shell Oil president John Hofmeister said during the keynote speech at the National Ethanol Conference. Read more →
The fracking revolution is still largely misunderstood by the oil and gas industry. It helped the U.S. attain a measure of independence from imported oil but even today we import about 6.5 million barrels a day, equivalent to one-third of U.S. consumption.
Natural gas is abundant and cheap in the United States, and we should be using more of it for our transportation needs, Fuel Freedom co-founder and chairman Yossie Hollander said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Friday. “Everybody talks about the oil and gas industry, but we’re using only the oil,” he said.
Fuel Freedom Foundation chairman Yossie Hollander delivered the keynote address Nov. 16 at a discussion hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., called “U.S.-China Energy Cooperation: Risks, Opportunities, and Solutions.”
Fuel Freedom’s co-founder and chairman, Yossie Hollander, talked about fuel choice and the film PUMP in a podcast interview with the American Jewish Committee’s chapter in Westchester/Fairfield, New York.
John Hofmeister, the former president of Shell Oil and currently a member of Fuel Freedom Foundation’s Board of Advisors and Board of Directors, will deliver the keynote address at the 2016 RFA National Ethanol Conference in New Orleans.
At the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York City, Fuel Freedom Foundation and IESE Business School announced a new education program as a CGI Commitment to Action that takes a ground-up approach toward reducing energy poverty on the African continent.
In this podcast, we talk about Saudi and OPEC oil, Chinese cars, and domestic natural gas, oil and coal resources. It’s a fascinating discussion with one of the most influential men of our time.
