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FDD Senior Fellow, Dr. Robert Zubrin, Explains How Flex Fuel Vehicles Would End Oil's Strategic Value.A nuclear engineer, Dr. Robert Zubrin is the president of Pioneer Astronautics, which focuses on aerospace research and development. He holds a doctorate in engineering and has nine U.S. patents granted or pending. He is the author of four non-fiction books, three works of fiction, and numerous articles in such publications as Scientific American, New Atlantis, American Enterprise, the New York Times and the Washington Post.Most recently, he is the author of Energy Victory, in which he argues that Congress should pass a law requiring that all new cars sold in the United States be flex-fueled (able to run on gasoline, alcohol or a mixture of these and other fuels). The result would be 50 million cars on U.S. roads within three years that are not reliant on foreign oil and an equal number of flex-fuel cars overseas. Entrepreneurs would bring to market a variety of alternative fuels, breaking of the oil monopoly, he asserts.As a fellow with FDD, Dr. Zubrin will conduct research, write and work to educate lawmakers, the policy community, the media and the public on the importance and practicality of ensuring energy security by breaking our nation’s reliance on foreign oil.

• Release Date

  Jan 9, 2009

• Runtime

  06:29