The GET: Grand Energy Transition, A Book Launch for Robert Hefner

The GET: Global Energy Transition
by Robert Hefner

INTRODUCTION:

John Podesta
President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for American Progress

FEATURED AUTHOR:

Robert Hefner,
Author, The GET

MODERATOR:CLOSING REMARKS:

Sharon Burke
Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

CLOSING REMARKS:

Kurt Campbell
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Center for a New American Security

In his new book, The GET, Robert Hefner shows that civilization is experiencing the last stage of what history will record as a brief liquid energy transition between unsustainable, dirty, limited solid forms of energy to a future epoch of sustainable, clean, virtually limitless gaseous forms of energy. He believes this natural evolutionary energy transition reveals which energy sources and technologies are the most likely winners that will accelerate energy use toward a sustainable future. Hefner proposes policies that will level the economic playing field among competing energy sources and technologies, and work to accelerate the GET. He believes that by implementing policies that result in natural gas use for a major sector of our vehicle fleet as well as most non-wind and solar produced electric power by 2020, America can accomplish many of its near and mid-term energy and environmental goals.