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Recharging The Nation’s Energy Policy

Bruce Agnew and Steve Marshall
January 23, 2007
Cascadia
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 Originally published at The Seattle Times

Alan Mulally, Ford's new CEO, helped lead Boeing into a new world of carbon-fiber, fuel-efficient technology with the 787 Dreamliner. In an intensely competitive global marketplace, Boeing is back on top again in sales over Airbus, which is struggling to catch up with Boeing's fuel-efficient technologies.

Mulally now faces a similar global fuel-efficiency race in the even more competitive auto industry, where major manufacturers are predicting that they will soon make hybrid cars that will get more than 100 miles per gallon. One manufacturer predicts that average commuters might never have to fill up their gas tanks again.

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Bruce Agnew

Director, Cascadia Center
Since 2017, Bruce has served as Director of the ACES NW Network based in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington. The Network is dedicated to the acceleration of ACES (Autonomous-Connected-Electric-Shared) technology in Northwest transportation for the movement of people and goods. ACES is co-chaired by Tom Alberg, Co-Founder and managing partner of Madrona Venture Group in Seattle and Bryan Mistele, CEO/Co-Founder of INRIX global technology in Kirkland. In 2022, Bruce became the director of the newly created Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) Regional Infrastructure Accelerator. Initial funding for the Accelerator has come from the Build America Bureau of the USDOT. PNWER is a statutory public/private nonprofit created in 1991 by the U.S. states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan and the territories of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. PNWER has 16 cross-border working groups for common economic and environmental initiatives.