David B. Sandalow

David B. Sandalow is Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies in Brookings Institution.

He is J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1982; B.A., Yale College, 1978

He was Executive Vice President, World Wildlife Fund ( World Wide Fund for Nature WWF-US) 2001-2003.

He was Attorney, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

[edit] Freedom From Oil

He wrote Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction . ^[1]

It includes a Presidential Plan to End Oil Dependence starts with a Clean Vehicle Executive Order, priming the pump by:

Offering to buy 30,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles (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. Bush's Order, which has had no impact.
Legislation to retool US auto factories and assume some auto industry health costs.
Consumer tax credits of $8,000 for the first million PHEVs and $4,000 for the second million.
Replacing CAFE 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 The book ends with a Presidential speech calling for "new ways of doing business that create jobs, cut pollution and make us stronger," and "proposing a grand bargain with American automakers. If you invest in advanced technologies, we'll invest in you."

^ Freedom From Oil: How the Next President Can End the United States' Oil Addiction, McGraw Hill, ISBN-10: 0071489061, 2007-10-01. (http://www.calcars.org/books.html#ffo )