Energy Efficiency's 'Founding Fathers' Talk Election's Impact Industry

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Last week's presidential election, which gave George W. Bush wins in both the popular and electoral votes and a mandate to govern, according to the president, left most energy-efficiency advocates with a hangover. Proponents of alternative-fuel consumption and less reliance on foreign oil - which describes a majority of the of the people working in the left-leaning energy-efficiency industry - are having a hard time dealing with President Bush's impending second term.

And, indeed, Ralph Cavanagh and Art Rosenfeld, two of the three men that Portland firm Ecos Consulting has promoted as the energy efficiency movement's founding fathers, do not come across as strong supporters of the president. They're critical of Bush's attitudes toward the environment, and they describe many of his policies regarding energy consumption as reckless.

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Energy Efficiency's 'Founding Fathers' Talk Election's Impact Industry

Yet neither man, each of whom was in Portland last week for the Ecos forum Founding Fathers of Energy Efficiency: How It All Began, Visions for the Future, can agree on what the president's re- election means for the energy-effi...

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