1. National Academy of Sciences, Real Prospects for Energy Efficiency in the United States (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2010), p. 4; ExxonMobil, Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030, December 2010.

2. World Economic Forum and IHS CERA, Energy Vision Update 2010: Towards a More Energy Efficient World, 2010, p. 12; Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Energy,” June 29, 2009.

3. Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (New York: Penguin Press, 2007), p. 492.

4. Scott Murtishaw and Lee Schipper, “Disaggregated Analysis of U. S. Energy Consumption in the 1990s: Evidence of the Effects of the Internet and Rapid Economic Growth,” Energy Policy 29, no. 15 (2001) pp. 1335–56.

5. Wen Jiabao, speech, National Teleconference on Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction, April 27, 2007.

6. Erica Downs, “China’s Energy Rise,” in China’s Rise in Historical Perspective, ed. Brantly Womack (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), p. 181 (Jieneng Jianpai).

7. Wen Jiabao, speech, National Teleconference on Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction, April 27, 2007.

8. BBC Worldwide Monitoring, March5, 2010.

9. Joanna I. Lewis, “Decoding China’s Climate and Energy Policy Post-Copenhagen,” German Marshall Fund Policy Brief, June 2010; Hongyan H. Oliver, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Donglian Tian, and Jinhua Zhang, “China’s Fuel Economy Standards for Passenger Vehicles,” Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, March 2009.

10. Allison Hannon, Ying Liu, Jim Walker, Changhua Wu, Delivering Low Carbon Growth: A Guide to China’s 12thFive Year Plan (The Climate Group with HSBC: March, 2011).

11. Neal Elliott and Anna Shipley, “Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on Natural Gas Markets,” American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, April 2006, pp. 11, 21.

12. Andrew Liveris, speech, CERAWeek, March11, 2010.

13. Dow Corporation, “Dow Sustainability – Energy Efficiency and Conservation,” at .

14. Andrew Liveris, speech, CERAWeek, March11, 2010; interview with Richard Wells; Andrew Liveris, Wall Street Journal 2008 Eco-Nomics Conference; interview with Andrew Liveris.

15. International Energy Agency, Tracking Industrial Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emissions: In Support of the G-8 Plan of Action (Paris: International Energy Agency, 2007), pp. 19, 34.

16. Jeffery Smisek, speech, CERA Week, March11, 2011; John Heimlich, “The Economic Climbout for US Airlines,” ATA Economics, June 2, 2011, presentation, January 24, 2007 (higher fuel efficiency).

17. U. S. International Air Passenger and Freight Statistics, Federal Communications Commission, 2007 (sharp ascent); David Nielson, chief engineer for Airport Strategy at Boeing, “Boeing’s Contribution to Aviation Sustainability,” Pacific Basin Development Council, August 27, 2007 (By 2026); Jeffery Smisek, speech, CERA Week, March11, 2011.

18. Observer, January 29, 2006 (“negative effects”); Rough Guides, press release, March 1, 2006; Times (London), July 23, 2006; Lonely Planet: Discover Europe (2010), p. 790.

19. Interview with Andris Piebalgs.