Rising Gasoline Prices Signal Trouble for Climate Change Action

A quote from RFF President and CEO Richard Newell about the importance of technological innovation appears in an Axios column.

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Date

Aug. 2, 2021

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Media Highlight

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Axios

“If there is increased oil demand and if we don’t have technological innovation and policy driving a transition to clean energy, you will get higher prices for oil and gas, and that will create all kind of dynamics, including political ones.”

— Richard Newell, former administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration under Barack Obama and current president of think tank Resources for the Future

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Industry and Fuels

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Richard G. Newell

Former President and CEO, Resources for the Future

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