Driving it home: choosing the right path for fueling North America's transportation future

Miscellaneous · Fri Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI ID:21233568

Bordetsky, Ann; Casey-Lefkowitz, Susan; Lovaas, Deron; Martin-Perera, Elizabeth; Nakagawa, Melanie; Randall, Bob; Woynillowicz, Dan

North America faces an energy crossroads. With the world fast approaching the end of cheap, plentiful conventional oil, we must choose between developing ever-dirtier sources of fossil fuels -- at great cost to our health and environment -- or setting a course for a more sustainable energy future of clean, renewable fuels. This report explores the full scale of the damage done by attempts to extract oil from liquid coal, oil shale, and tar sands; examines the risks for investors of gambling on these dirty fuel sources; and lays out solutions for guiding us toward a cleaner fuel future. Table of contents: Executive Summary; Chapter 1: Transportation Fuel at a Crossroads; Chapter 2: Canadian Tar Sands: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel in Endangered Forests; Chapter 3: Oil Shale Extraction: Drilling Through the American West; Chapter 4: Liquid Coal: A 'Clean Fuel' Mirage; Chapter 5: The Investment Landscape: Dirty Fuels Are Risky Business; Chapter 6: The Clean Path for Transportation and Conclusion.

• Research Organization: Natural Resources Defense Council (United States); Western Resource Advocates (United States); Pembina Institute (United States)
• OSTI ID: 21233568
• Resource Relation: Other Information: IEACR LIB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
OIL SHALES
COAL LIQUIDS
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
COAL LIQUEFACTION
OIL SANDS
OIL SAND MINING
MINING
FORESTS
ENDANGERED SPECIES
AUTOMOTIVE FUELS
BIOFUELS
LIQUID FUELS
TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
GASOLINE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
SURFACE MINING
SOCIAL IMPACT
COAL MINING