Economic Factors to Drive More Pragmatic Obama Energy Policy

摘要

Restructuring the economy, not climate change, will drive the Obama administration's energy policy during the president's second term, says Michelle Michot Foss, head of the Center for Energy Economics of the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology. This goal will help determine the US energy mix, its geopolitical policy, position on carbon policy and efforts toward energy security, Foss said at last week's Oil & Money conference sponsored by Energy Intelligence and the International Herald Tribune.