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Stanford University News

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Mark Golden

"Oil is ammunition," read a World War II poster encouraging conservation. That message is just as appropriate today, according to John Warner, the former five-term senator from Virginia.

The United States must reduce its consumption of fossil fuels not only for environmental reasons, but to improve its economic and national security, said Warner and former Secretary of State George Shultz, a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Business. The two senior Republicans outlined their vision for how to enact a national energy policy at a conference hosted by Stanford last week.

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"We need a comprehensive energy framework. We need to describe the problem and tell the public that it's as important as any other aspect of national security. And we're going to have to leave these rules in place for a period of time so there's some continuity," Warner said at the Pew Charitable Trusts' Accelerating Clean Energy conference, which was co-hosted by the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy and Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy.

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In Iraq and Afghanistan fuel shipments account for 80 percent of supply convoys; military personnel are injured or killed in about one of every 50 convoys in those two wars, according to Phyllis Cuttino, the director of the Pew Clean Energy Program.

…Read the full article, At Stanford, GOP Members Gird for Battle Against Fossil Fuels