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Will a Net Zero Gas Tax Protect US Economy & Environment?

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Roger Ballentine - Roger Ballentine is the President of Green Strategies Inc. and a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington D.C. Ballentine was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives.

Charles Krauthammer - Charles Krauthammer writes a syndicated column for the Washington Post that appears in over 150 newspapers worldwide and is a winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. He is also a monthly essayist for TIME magazine, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and The New Republic, a political analyst for FOX News and a weekly panelist on Inside Washington.

Clifford May - Clifford May is President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. He chairs the Policy Committee of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), an international, non-partisan organization comprised of leading members of the national security community and is a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times.

Robert James Woolsey - Robert James Woolsey is vice president of the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and an officer in its global resilience practice.

Previously, Woolsey served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and delegate-at-large to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. He has also been a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC.

Woolsey is currently co-chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, as well as chairman of the advisory boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council and a trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.

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01 hr 58 min 39 sec

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01.: Introduction

07 min 17 sec

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02.: Targeted Gasoline Tax

04 min 56 sec

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03.: Decreased Oil Consumption Boosts National Security

09 min 20 sec

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04.: Malevolent Threat to Energy System

02 min 44 sec

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05.: Breaking Oil Monopoly on Transportation

04 min 09 sec

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06.: Value of Energy Efficiency

06 min 44 sec

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07.: Possibility of Oil Tariff

06 min 07 sec

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08.: Shock to the Consumer

07 min 04 sec

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09.: Stable Gas Price When Oil Falls

03 min 53 sec

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10.: Issues with Payroll Tax Cut

04 min 54 sec

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11.: Consumers Won't Change Industry

01 min 57 sec

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12.: Neutrality of Tax

05 min 27 sec

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13.: No Silver Bullets

01 min 46 sec

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14.: Tax Shifting

02 min 17 sec

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15.: Taxing Gasoline or Petroleum

03 min 20 sec

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16.: Different Factions in Support

03 min 59 sec

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17.: Bipartisan Appeal

02 min 05 sec

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18.: Oil Money Funds Everything in Middle East

01 min 17 sec

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19.: Support from Economists

05 min 47 sec

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20.: Incremental Change in Behavior

02 min 08 sec

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21.: Myriad Government Subsidies

01 min 15 sec

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22.: Impacts on Rural Areas and Agriculture

08 min 07 sec

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23.: Lightning Round

12 min 29 sec

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24.: Changing the Politics

02 min 36 sec

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25.: Broad Coalition Already Exists

02 min 25 sec

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26.: Keep the Bill Clean

04 min 25 sec

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Charles Krauthammer Proposes an Unusual Gasoline Tax

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Partner:: Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Location:: The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 03.05.09
Speakers:: Roger Ballentine,; Charles Krauthammer,; Clifford May,; Robert James Woolsey

Summary: FDD's Leading Thinkers forum convened a bipartisan group of 30 expert economists, executive agency heads, think tank analysts, academics and journalists to examine the utility of a federal gasoline tax rebated to consumers.

Former C.I.A Director R. James Woolsey and Charles Krauthammer, both members of FDD's Leadership Council, and Roger Ballentine led the discussion. The conversation focused on the political landscape and feasibility of net-zero gas tax legislation.