Oil Toil. By Kate Sheppard, Grist, December 26, 2008. "A fleet of oil industry reps, enviros, venture capitalists, national-security hawks, and think-tankers walk into a room. After a day and a half of debate, can they walk out with at least three oil-related policy recommendations for the next president? That was the challenge presented by the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Brookings Institution, which hosted a meeting of a wide range of energy and environmental stakeholders in Washington on Dec. 18 and 19, under the banner of the 'Oil Solutions Summit.' The invited parties -- from the Natural Resources Defense Council to Chevron to members of Obama's transition team -- have all crafted their own plans for the future of energy in the U.S. But the question for this event was whether these groups could agree to some clear policies that would make the country more economically, environmentally, and physically secure. If they could put those recommendations on Obama's desk in the next few weeks, it would be an unprecedented step forward... Over the next few weeks, Brookings and RMI will gather the ideas generated at the summit into a draft summary, which each group will then be able to examine and discuss. Ideally, they'd like to continue the conversation online, and be able to deliver to Obama three to five ideas that the group agrees widely on by mid-January."
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