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CEOs, ex-military brass float plans to cut oil reliance
The Energy Security Leadership Council — a coalition of CEOs and retired military officials — floated a big report Wednesday that calls for several transportation policies aimed at curbing oil reliance.
The group is eyeing the next big transportation reauthorization bill as a vehicle for their ideas. They include making reduced oil consumption a top “performance metric” for the Transportation Department, new funding for metro areas to curb congestion, and plenty of others.
“A growing confluence of factors makes the next surface transportation reauthorization bill a unique opportunity to improve our country’s transportation strategy and to bring it into alignment with our national strategic energy interests,” the report notes.
The Energy Security Leadership Council includes retired Gen. P.X. Kelley, who was commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, FedEx Corp. CEO Frederick Smith and several other business and ex-military officials.
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