Green Electricity and Transportation (GET) Smart: Policy Solutions to Increase Energy Independence
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
2013
Level
City or Town, City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies
State(s)
All States, Ohio
Policy Areas
Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Transportation & Mobility
Ohioans spend a large amount of money on energy. In 2010, we spent $45 billion, nearly 10 percent of our state's gross domestic product. Nearly half of those energy dollars (or more than $20 billion) was spent to fuel cars, trucks, and buses, and nearly all of which left the state or country in order to import oil. Ohio can reduce its dependence on imported oil by promoting electric vehicles (EVs) and buses, as well as passenger and freight rail. Several Ohio communities, including Oberlin, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Cuyahoga Falls are using municipal aggregation and municipal utility power to increase use of local clean energy, thus keeping energy dollars local.
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